Katy Lyst

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“One Line and Sixty Years” by Katy Lyst

Submitted to Contest #11

March 13, 1952 Hell found her. Yes. It had surely found her. It was Doreen’s eighteenth birthday, but instead of celebrating, she stood, alone, in a dim-lit pantry, staring at a line on the wall. An ordinary line it could’ve been, should’ve been, only now it bore the mark of desperation, sadness, and a bitter battle waging in the pit of her stomach. Red crayon, no more than hen scratching, “five-foot-two inches, thirteen years old,” etched a fire into her heart, the heat now spreading to her lungs. Her graduation awaited. In one week, she’d ...

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Doing day by day and story by story, never losing faith that someone reading my words will somehow be altered in some positive way.