Kate Baker

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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“LET GO” by Kate Baker

Submitted to Contest #158

LET GO It was nearly midnight when the train pulled into Kings Cross. Ellen checked her hair in the window’s reflection. She was sure the length and colour was exactly right, but only time would tell. Outside the terminal the pavement was wet although the rain had stopped. However, the seven minute walk to Oli’s bar was enough time for her plan to fail if moisture got to her hair. She retrieved her brolly and protected the hard-earned effect as if her life depended on it. Her life did depend on it. She was nobody without Oli’s atten...

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“THE HOUSE WITH NO DOOR” by Kate Baker

Submitted to Contest #145

THE HOUSE WITH NO DOOR We played there as children, innocent and excited to be anywhere that wasn’t home. Somewhere a call from mother couldn’t be heard. It was ‘off the beaten track’ as I’d heard adults say about places that were hidden. Thirty years later, this house is hiding from itself. The seventies in rural Cornwall was a life in the slow lane. Too far for Londoners to make a short visit and enough sea that those from nearby France didn’t bother to enter England via our county. It was, and still is, a quiet plac...

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