Kimberly 5

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2022

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“Always and Never” by Kimberly 5

Submitted to Contest #146

Sensitive: sexualized language, and cursing. Three years ago today, it was a Mother’s Day Sunday. There is an anniversary picture on my cell phone of my infant daughter sitting in my ex- husband's lap. The memory holds a story of spouses, out to dinner, with two beautiful children. In the picture, her Father looks blankly beyond the camera, with no affect in his face; the musicians must have been in that direction because my infant daughter is also gazing in the same direction (and there is a rational voice inside me that know...

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“Blue” by Kimberly 5

Submitted to Contest #145

The tension is back in my shoulders, and I reach up with my warm hands to find what is there. Or, to feel that nothing is there. A quiet night, dark outside my window. What if I am already dead inside, life around me a game of pretending to know what a live woman looks like, pretending to be someone that can nurture, grow, and love. The longing is strong for things that are not real; there was not any good mornings or good night kisses the last time a man lived in a life with me. I see a cat around the cor...

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