Joyce McBurney

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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“My Aunt Sophie” by Joyce McBurney

Submitted to Contest #253

The National Geographic Magazine, AKA, the Nat Geo, was first published in September of 1888. By 1908 more than half of the magazine’s pages were photographs. At its peak of publication in the late 1980’s, Nat Geo magazine had twelve million subscribers in the U.S., and millions more outside the U.S. [1]From the time she was nine and got her first camera for her birthday, Aunt Sophie loved taking pictures. Through high school, she worked for the school newspaper, taking pictures for all the extracurricular activities and the school yearbook....

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“Unexpected Delivery” by Joyce McBurney

Submitted to Contest #212

In today’s world of technology and so much of our communication being via e -mail or texts, most of us, myself included, find it unnecessary to go the post office. We all know we have them, after all, our mail must come from somewhere and we see the mail carriers out doing their deliveries, sometimes even on Sundays. Depending on where a person lives, they may get their mail in a mailbox in front of their house, b...

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“George West” by Joyce McBurney

Submitted to Contest #204

GEORGE WEST It’s not uncommon for a town to be named after its founder or a person of great influence, such is the case of the city in Live Oak County named George West. History tells us that George and Kitty West came from a small town in Tennessee in 1913 and became cattle ranchers of seventy – five thousand acres. Because of their wealth ...

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