Katie Nowak

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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“Memories” by Katie Nowak

Submitted to Contest #85

There’s something about pulling into the driveway of a place you love. It’s a brief moment of joy, not for what is about to happen, but for what has happened. Memories. The smell of cedar and earth, fish and freshness. And the sounds of crickets and frogs. They aren’t just the memories of things that have happened—it’s so much deeper than that. If I lived a hundred years without this place, I could recognize it in an instant. It is everything that is home.  It had been an exhilarating drive. Mile after mile over country road...

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“Email: A First-World Pandemic Saga” by Katie Nowak

Submitted to Contest #84

The clock on the kitchen stove reads 11:34. Plenty of time. A voice. “What does your mom do?” “She writes emails. All day.”“She gets paid for that?” I feel my blood pressure rise. It’ll take five or six episodes of Cosmic Kids Yoga to get it back to normal. But then again, all they ever see is me trying to type an email. Telling them, “Give me a minute to write this email!” About fifty times a day. Little do they know, it’s the same email. I don’t write emails. I write email. “I think that’s all she does. D...

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Author bio

I'm a hobby writer, runner and author in the in-between moments of the day. Published work includes White Dove (2018) and Forever England (2021) from Scribble & Spark Bookworks (https://scribbleandspark.com).