K. Byrnes

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2021

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“The Silence and the Storm” by K. Byrnes

Submitted to Contest #112

When I ask my Amma to tell me the story of the Silence, her telling is like a river; it never takes the same shape, the same path. Each time she spins the tale, new details weave together like trickling streams, joining one after the other until before you know it, the story has gathered enough pace and depth to sweep you off your feet and out to sea. But when she sets her mind to this telling, there is one thing that is as fixed as the stars that paint the sky each night: she invariably starts with the Storm.  The beginning of her te...

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“The Sorrowful Sea” by K. Byrnes

Submitted to Contest #111

Cory couldn’t describe his grandfather without first describing his house; like a hermit crab and its shell, the two parts made the whole. His memories of the man were thoroughly knotted up in the place, with its splintering whalebone-grey shingles and walls that bellied out like a ship’s sail, the whole of it hurricane battered but somehow determinedly clinging to the headland above the bay like a barnacle glued to a tide-scoured rock.  Cory’s mother used to joke that it couldn’t be a bachelor pad, because her father was married to t...

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Tea-fuelled word dabbler and life-long bad speller.