K.B. Tally

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Before I Wake” by K.B. Tally

Submitted to Contest #176

In the small town of Belfast, Maine, at a quarter past seven the night of Christmas Eve, an apothecarist was startled awake from her prolonged sleep on the sofa. The hair on the back of her neck stood erect, goosebumps dotted her arms, and a feeling she had long since forgotten returned to her like an old friend – the feeling that an unannounced, important guest was arriving in the coming hours. She urgently wrapped her shawl around her shoulders and went to the elixir cabinet, scanning the glass bottles of various sizes and shapes with her ...

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“The Matriarch ” by K.B. Tally

Submitted to Contest #166

CW: Violence, topics of racism (i.e. the Jim Crow South), offensive language ---Up in the Appalachian Mountains, nestled in Goose Creek past the Edwards’ seventy-acre cattle farm, a run-down store everyone within a fifty-mile radius knew as Five Church closed indefinitely. The closing came after the death of Nellie Pine – one of the original founders of the store and a well-known matriarch in Auburn County - as family and friends requested privacy to mourn. The newspaper printed a five-page obituary for the born-and-bred Goose Creek resident...

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Author bio

Physician Assistant. Appalachia lover. Surviving my 20s.