Kelly Burmeier

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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2 Stories

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“WSTA, Sect. Q, patient H-293775481: Welcome to Hrshwth” by Kelly Burmeier

Submitted to Contest #96

Arrived in Hrshwth. Gate connection in approximately five minutes, the automated voice chimed. Metz felt tremors down her spine as she stood to shuffle on the landing of the ship. Oof. Her back ached. Her neck ached. Her hands… her whole body ached from remaining in her seat the past 18 hours for the landing process. The whole seven month flight was easier than the last half-day. If Metz had been bathing in a second story tub when it finally fell through the rotted floor and shattered with her still in it, she would have been in less pain....

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“Le Pneu Michelin” by Kelly Burmeier

Submitted to Contest #95

Tw: abuse, child abuse.I retract my fingertips into the sleeves of my puffy, silver coat. An easy feat, as I still haven’t quite grown into it these past three years. It’s a crisp Sunday morning in late fall. In Oklahoma, autumn mornings are nearly winter and yet autumn afternoons blaze with the heat of summer awakened by a thousand fireworks on the Fourth of July. My palms and my ribs are damp with sweat — from my nervous fidgeting or the turning of a cool morning into a hot day, I don’t know. I don’t take off my coat. It makes me feel like...

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Author bio

I can't make myself dislike Smash Mouth's music. I've tried. Lupus is my albatross. To compensate for that, I work from home as a copy writer and tutor. My doggo is primo company. I will always wish that I had met Diana Wynne Jones. "Fire and Hemlock" is everything.