Katherine M. Kean

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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4 Stories

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“The Wave” by Katherine M. Kean

Submitted to Contest #8

The main obstacle to my adventure in the desert was actually getting there. I was leaving from London, and there are no deserts in England or within easy reach of London. So, at the least it would mean an expensive flight, and a stay in a seedy hotel or motel. Worse, this was the tail-end of summer 2019. Thomas Cook, the world's oldest tour operator at 178 years of business, had taken my plane fare before filing for bankruptcy. I had not started my travels when the owner filed, and I had only booked a flight, not lodgings. Therefore, I had n...

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“Six or seven going on a hundred: to help you avoid making similar mistakes ” by Katherine M. Kean

Submitted to Contest #7

Now I am six, and will be so for ever and ever[1], it is time for me to write my autobiography – hopefully for your amusement. I only want to say one thing before I start: at school we have already learnt the importance of research for our writing and citing the results of this. Therefore, I have begun as I mean to go on in life.My life got off to a slow start. All I wanted to do was sleep, but my persistent parents pursued a policy of purposeful prodding and poking to waken me up to feed. I suppose it’s just as well they did really, otherwi...

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“Southern California here we come” by Katherine M. Kean

Submitted to Contest #6

Our short road-trip down Highway 1 (H1) direction South, final destination Santa Barbara, was an integral part of my visit to San Francisco. This visit had taken many years to progress from a dream to reality, and all through this period the road-trip evolved continually. It changed length, direction, and style, depending on our moods, the planned time and length of my visit, and restrictions such as work commitments. At one point, the trip had even fallen off the radar of things to happen, when Sophie gave up her car. Fortunately, that obst...

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“Extreme measures to counteract boredom. by Katherine M. Kean” by Katherine M. Kean

Submitted to Contest #5

Everybody has one birthday, usually when they reach a decade, where they suddenly feel tired, old, and used up. The intensity of this feeling varies depending on the person, and on the age in question. When Patricia hit fifty, the shock sent her reeling, and she felt as though she had bitten the dust, hard. It happened at a very precise moment, when she was making her New Year’s Resolutions. This had always been problematic for her, her difficulties linked to the fact that her birthday fell on December the 30th. She usually spent most of the...

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