K. C. Brote

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“One Last Gift” by K. C. Brote

Submitted to Contest #180

Roxanne Guinevere Reardon never had the chance to get to know the woman who had given her such a mouthful of a name, but she knew that it had something to do with her father not being at the hospital the night she was born, during a spring blizzard in midcoast Maine. Roxy, as she was commonly known, was nearly a teenager before she thought to wonder at her origin story, but by then, her mother had been dead for years, and her father in prison for her murder. The only person she could ask was her Aunt Brenna, and she was too busy raising Roxy...

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“Carving Jack” by K. C. Brote

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #169

Carving JackLydia Smith bought a house in New Hampshire simply because she fell in love with autumn. In New Hampshire, autumn gives lungs to Vivaldi’s violins. It drinks from a witch’s brew of smoky smells and corduroy textures then follows it up with a warm cinnamon chaser. It is the height of perfection, and gone so quickly all that remains is a sense of it, like a dream you can’t quite recall, but that affects you nonetheless. Lydia’s dreams were affecting her during this particular autumn, but not because of the falling ...

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Author bio

I am a fiction writer enjoying life in Las Vegas! www.kcbroteauthor.com

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #169

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