Keelan LaForge

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

Stories (49)

49 Stories

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“A Desert Dream” by Keelan LaForge

Submitted to Contest #204

Lost in Arizona, on the holiday of my dreams. A five-figure holiday that I saved up for, for years. Down the toilet it went, whenever my girlfriend kicked me out of the car. We had a stupid fight. She was driving, I was swearing. She blamed the heat, I blamed her personality. She kicked me out of the car, in the back end of nowhere. I’d always wanted to visit the desert. It was on my bucket list, long before I met Angel. She and I had become one of those units that goes everywhere as a twosome, whether it's advisable or not. She was more of ...

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“Typical Jimmy” by Keelan LaForge

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #203

He died the other day. It was like his day of birth, but in reverse. Party poppers were pulled. He didn’t want his funeral to be anything less than a joy. Everybody he knew was there. They wanted the cocktail sausages on little sticks, and the vol au vents with that mushroom paste that tastes like birth and death in a sauce. The after party was even more fun than the funeral. He got a great send off. He had a lot of friends, and he’d hosted a lot of parties. He used to joke about when he died. He said it would be the cigarettes that killed h...

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“Paper Cups and Confetti Dreams” by Keelan LaForge

Submitted to Contest #201

“I can still feel it rushing through me.” “Do you need the bathroom?” “No, I need my next fix.” “What was so spectacular about it?” “Everything.” “I don’t get it.” I was sitting, floored by the concert, in a sea of clutter on the sticky floor. Cups were tossed underfoot with trampled confetti, and we were the only ones still there. The place was eerily quiet after utter chaos that could only be compared to Beatlemania, and I was a front row fan. My heart was racing like I’d had an unnatural high, but it wasn’t that; it was the thrill of the ...

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“Street of Sisterhood” by Keelan LaForge

Submitted to Contest #202

“I’m not competitive.” “Neither am I.” Kaley and Sam thought they knew themselves, but how well did they know each other? They’d been friends for what felt like an age. They’d done everything alongside one another for decades. It wasn’t planned, but their lives just seemed to converge time and again, like planes in a coordinated display -  but they’d never been the fighter kind, just the friendly kind. Friendship is a tenuous thing. It can all change in a minute over something seemingly innocuous, like something slight that the wind car...

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Author bio

I am a mum of two and a writer. I have twenty published books. I have a blog called "The Funky Thrifter." I used to write for Vintage Life magazine and other online publications.

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #203
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