Kate Dubbs

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023

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“Both” by Kate Dubbs

Submitted to Contest #289

Snuggled and calm, you lay by my side and my heartbeat syncs with yours. I reach over and stroke your sweet smelling head and tender baby hairs. You murmur in your sleep, what ails you little one? I am here beside you, a perfect indent in my postpartum body, a body I’ve come to embrace. It made you after all. Soft skin like velvet so beautiful and tender with eyelashes long and closed in a peaceful slumber. This moment so precious you must capture it in an image that plays on repeat in the depths of your mind, before you sleep, as you wake.&...

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“Inherited” by Kate Dubbs

Submitted to Contest #220

“Holy hell what were the chances?!” I say loudly to no-one but myself. Actually pretty high, an answering thought rudely replied as I slammed the breaks on my fathers beaten up powder blue truck and grip the steering wheel in alarm. My knuckles start to grow white as I stare out at the giant funnel of black and grey debris twirling around violently high up in the sky several miles out from the road. It was still forming. Thank the lord. This was why I avoided Nebraska most of my life. In tornado alley. In July. Hell yes I was consider...

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“Not A Sign” by Kate Dubbs

Submitted to Contest #187

I don’t really believe in signs. I would say I’m a pretty skeptical person. This cat though. This cat, with those fluffy large black ears and a splash of white fur painted across his face, this cat made me wonder if signs existed. He stared at me as I locked up my brothers comic book shop, an annoying detour I had to take from my usual law office in downtown LA. I was already in a foul mood having to do this favor to help out, and in no mindset to indulge a stray cat stoically making eye contact with me from across the street.&...

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