Karen Schwabenland

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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2 Stories

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“Mexican Shortbread Cookies” by Karen Schwabenland

Submitted to Contest #71

Each December, the family kitchen at Oma's house became a bakery. Oma would host each grandchild on a different day during the school holidays, and together they would create cookies of the grandchild's choosing. They would bake and decorate them together, and Oma would send the grandchild back home with two dozen of them while keeping a dozen or so to serve at the family Christmas celebration on the 25th. Edna, Oma's oldest grandchild had been too busy in recent years to participate in this tradition. She was in college now. During...

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“Mr. Darcy--1985” by Karen Schwabenland

Submitted to Contest #70

Della should have seen it coming. She went back over everything in her mind, and by that, she meant everything. Every little thing. Even the smallest, minutest of details. For example, she was standing at the corner of the small hallway that led to the restroom in his fraternity house. Her boyfriend, Jim, had gone inside to use it. She always found it curious that this place had no doors that locked. Was that by design? As it was, she felt near petrified to death to ever take a ...

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