Jolanta Polk

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2021

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“THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS” by Jolanta Polk

Submitted to Contest #277

On the first day of Christmas, Snow White sent me a partridge in a pear tree, which took me by surprise and made no sense at all. It came with a card signed by Snow White. Warm Greetings. The partridge was made of wrought iron, with sharp claws stuck to a branch, the tail extending behind in long copper and tin feathers. The pear tree was hideous and crooked, as if handcrafted in an outburst of madness by an artisan who recently graduated from a lunatic arts academy. “Go figure,” I thought. “Is this a kind of game she is playing?” “May...

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“THE FERN FLOWER” by Jolanta Polk

Submitted to Contest #110

It was the last day of our holiday in Poland. We’d already been to Malbork, home to the biggest medieval castle in the world, and the Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s top-secret, high-security bunker when a place that called my attention popped up on the interactive Google map. “The Hel Peninsula,” I said with amusement. “Do you think it’s worth visiting? I asked Justyna, my wife. She shrugged. “It’s ju...

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“FAKE NEWS INC” by Jolanta Polk

Submitted to Contest #107

FAKE NEWS INC. By J.B.PolkIt started small, nearly innocent, and quite by accident, far from what it eventually became - a quicksand of lies and secrets. And once in, there was no way out. Deeper and deeper I sank.All began on the day my former school pal, Ashok, came to visit me. We chewed the fat for a while, talked about our childhood on the estate, about my computer science studies at the Uni but I noticed he was kind of down and when I asked him, he said that Prisha, his girlfriend of two years, had just dumped him.Prisha was a dishy ch...

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