K.E. MacPhie

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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3 Stories

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“Overheard at the Bar” by K.E. MacPhie

Submitted to Contest #188

Happy? Yeah, why wouldn’t I be? I have a perfect life. Maybe the ideal of the average Gen-X man in America. I can grow a beard in a week, my voice is low and commanding with real confidence and authority behind it, guys wanna be me and girls wanna do me. I’m a Lumberjack by trade, and I guess most people think that’s pretty impressive. Can I get a beer? I live in a cabin on 20 acres of land. I have four boys who all inherited my impressive height, hairline, and headstrong attitude. I can build or fix anything around the house or that drive...

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“Little Glutton” by K.E. MacPhie

Submitted to Contest #187

“Thanks for coming in, it’s way easier to do this in person than over the phone” Lisa had been stopping by sporadically for the three months I had been assigned to oversee the final stages of construction on the new cat shelter and veterinary clinic here on The Rez. A City Indian myself, living at the casino hotel and commuting daily to the facility in a little work-provided sedan with the big words "Animal Humane Society" plastered along the side, I had already been quite the oddity in town. But she was always kind and wise, happy to help m...

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“The Dining Room Table” by K.E. MacPhie

Submitted to Contest #186

“You think I WANTED to come here? I had nowhere else to go, Kenny. Trust me, I’m here for our children, not for you.” “You could hide out anywhere in the world and you pick MY cabin. Bullshit, Ashley. I’m sure you’re banging some new guy by now that could take you in.” “No one has a space like you have and you know that. Most people don’t do the whole Grizzly Adams survivalist thing on the rez like you. In fact, I think it was your total need for solitude that contributed to our divorce. Oh wait, you weren’t in solitude, you had…someone el...

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Author bio

Kirsten is an emerging author from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. She has been writing since First Grade, but decided to finally put things out into the world now at age 37. She has self-published one book and has twenty more sitting half-finished in her computer.