Kelly McCluskey

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2023

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“Jack and the Elephant” by Kelly McCluskey

Submitted to Contest #183

    Rachel was not excited to vote. She had not missed any elections since she was eighteen and she was not going to miss the presidential election this year. It was important to her. Rachel could not understand anyone who said, ‘I don’t do politics.’ She felt that line was such a cop out and how you could not “do” politics in some way. And by “doing” did not mean running for anything to her it just meant following news and politics regularly and being engaged to make a good voting decision. She was taught by her mother a...

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“An Unexpected Disappearance” by Kelly McCluskey

Submitted to Contest #182

    Jane was never one to dwell on her feelings or seek help for feeling down or upset. Lately she could not seem to “fix” feeling like her life was meaningless, mundane, and just plain boring. She wondered if it was just her age and the fact that she had been doing the same job for twenty years at the same office working for the same boss. As an advertising executive she was somehow losing her edge, not because she wasn’t creative any longer but because there was a younger generation in the office, and her boss gave them...

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Author bio

I'm a former teacher, triathlete, now Real Estate Broker. I've raised two great kids and live with my husband Mark and Golden Retriever in Cary North Carolina. I've self-published a book called Food is Love available on Amazon. Author of blog called My Tri- Life about my adventures in Triathlon.