Kathleen Whalen

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

Stories (17)

17 Stories

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“The Misfit’s Diary” by Kathleen Whalen

Submitted to Contest #36

Dear Diary:You were sitting in the middle of the kitchen table when I came down for breakfast. You had a pretty blue flowered cover with a ballerina on the front. Mom said she bought me a diary for my tenth birthday because I had a lot to say and it was time to put my words on paper.Mom made me blueberry pancakes for my birthday breakfast and said that after school we would go to a movie together and then have dinner out. I didn’t ask if my dad was coming. I knew the answer already.Mom picked me up after school and we saw “Back to the Future...

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“Our Last Dance ” by Kathleen Whalen

Submitted to Contest #35

Spring 1942Katt had chosen the yellow dress with the short sleeves from the Sears catalog. She’d saved up for months. Using babysitting money, birthday money, and money from her part time job at Mason‘s Hardware. Her grandmother had chosen a pattern and wanted to sew her a dress. But that dress was pink and fru-fru. Katt had told her grandmother she was eighteen years old, not eight.When Thomas came to the door he whistled appreciatively.“Yowsa! Katt, you look like an actual girl!”Katt was not certain how to take that comment. She kissed him...

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