Karel Fontaine

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Sakura - Kara Fuji and Japan” by Karel Fontaine

Submitted to Contest #191

Kara Fuji travelled slowly through a small rural village in Akita Prefecture, Honshu. Then, over a little bridge, she spied Sakura. Beside a cluster of ancient wooden shrines, a grotto of statuette Bodhisattvas, with little red skull caps, looking like cherry-top cherubs, was a narrow avenue of soft-pink, frothy, petals-dropping-in-the-breeze gorgeousness. Either side of the walkway to the main shrine stood cherry trees, their pink canopies touching. The trees were short and trimmed, their gnarly bark thick and flaking.  ...

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“Kara and Puss” by Karel Fontaine

Submitted to Contest #187

Kara and Puss is an Australian story about a feral cat. There is mention of feral cat eradication programmes and a trap.Kara and PussThere was one act of dreadful consequence that Kara Fuji was unable to forgive herself for. Her baby boy was about eight months old. They were living out the back of Laverton in the hot, baked red, willy-willy country of Western Australia. Her man was a core sampler at a nearby nickel mine. They followed the work until her man was bored or fell out with the boss. Then they moved on.&nbs...

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Author bio

Hi writing friends! GreatGranny Karel from Tasmania here. Intrepid traveller, photographer, textile artist and writer. Huge number of stories to tell; tales both tall and true. Its my 80th this year and I'm scribbling away at my memories.