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Kerry Chaput

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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Gliding to a Smile

Submitted to Contest #77

It’s been five years since my diagnosis. When the doctor said Parkinson's Disease I thought I heard her wrong. I laughed and told her that I was only fifty-five. Her face fell and she said, “Yes, I know.”  Staring out at the wintery wonderland over my box of pills, my thickened coffee, and my cane, the glass pane of the floor to ceiling windows feels like a cage. An impenetrable fortress of glass that shields me from the crisp air and the soft snowflakes. My hands shake. They call it a pill rolling tremor. My brain wants to jump up an...

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But No One Told Me

Submitted to Contest #63

By the time I stepped outside the leaves were on fire. Bright flaming red and auburn glowing from the branches. I’d been holed up in my house since Olivia was born, going on eight weeks. We brought her home from the hospital, wrapped in a soft pink blanket that was probably too hot for the sweltering August day. Over the last two months, I watched from the bay window, as the trees transformed from the emerald green of summer to the amber warmth of early autumn.  The blurry days came and went, but out the window, the shivering leaves an...

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