Kathy Manis Findley

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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“On Strangers and Friends” by Kathy Manis Findley

Submitted to Contest #96

Anastasia felt fear, reluctance, about leaving her tiny village in Greece’s Dodecanese islands. For her entire life, she made her home in Aperi, a wee village on the island of Karpathos. Living near the Aegeian Sea, she breathed the ocean breezes every day of her life and gazed upon the extravagant splendor of the deep turquoise ocean. Today, she could not breathe at all, her very breath became a suffocating gasp of fear. “I cannot leave,” she thought, “How can I leave my home, my patritha,* with a man old enough to be my father?” That man...

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“Golden Dreams” by Kathy Manis Findley

Submitted to Contest #69

Opie covered herself head to toe with her bedcovers every night. She tucked herself in tightly, her covers on the left and on the right shoved under her body. Always afraid, she hoped beyond hope that on this night the cocoon she had built around her body would keep her safe. The door to her bedroom was locked, and she had shoved the dresser in front of the door. Sleep came soon, but for her, sleep was a state she described as her twilight, when sleep was not deep enough. Her sleep most always kept her partially awake and aware of every mome...

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