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Kaitlyn DeMetro

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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The Camping Trip

Kaitlyn DeMetro

It was the best summer ever. We spent every minute camping, living off the land just like the pilgrims and natives that we learned about last year in Miss Darling’s class. At first we slept in the car but as dad said, “stayin’ in a car ain’t proper camping,” so he left us in the forest and drove it off to town for safe keeping. We slept under the stars with nothing but blankets to keep us from the bugs and coyotes, but I wasn’t scared. We were on an adventure and dad told us to never be scared of adventures. It took him two full days to find...

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The Answer

Kaitlyn DeMetro

Submitted to Contest #18

The worst about living in Brunswick, Maine are the blizzards, or rather, how we destroy what lies in its wake. A consuming atmosphere of exquisite, sparkling ice swept away by snowplows and salt trucks. Within minutes, our picturesque winter wonderland was reduced to grey slush. The crunch beneath my boots was loud and inelegant in contrast to the gentle leisure of the falling snow. The storm had cleared and left behind a slow fall like ashes after an erupting volcano. A bell dinged above my head as I entered Second Best Thrift. The rush o...

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The Search

Kaitlyn DeMetro

Submitted to Contest #6

There’s over 4 million miles of road in the United States alone. Traveling 500 miles a day, minimum, means it would take about 22 years to cover every navigable road. 10 down, 12 to go I guess. I’ve been to every major tourist attraction: Niagara Falls in New York, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite Park in California; I’ve been nearly everywhere, more than once, and check every tourist attraction in each state I pass through. I had to trade in the jeep a few years ago. The vans better for travel, especially when I want to pull into ...

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