Kimberly Moorhead

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“Asylum ” by Kimberly Moorhead

Submitted to Contest #33

Oralia’s daughter sleeps upright with her back propped against the concrete wall. Her head rests upon a worn canvas bag. The seams are split and frayed, bound together with thick silver tape. Her black hair is dull and matted, falling to her shoulders in tangled knots. Even in her sleep, she scratches at her scalp and the skin around her neck and ears. Oralia doesn’t know if it’s lice, or fleabites, or both. The streetlight arched high above them casts a pale yellow halo over the dark alley where they’ve stopped for the night. She reaches ou...

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“Whiteside Mountain” by Kimberly Moorhead

Submitted to Contest #23

I always wanted to hike Whiteside Mountain in the snow. The pluton rising out of the earth is four hundred million years old. The cliffs are sheer as though a potter molded them into a single tower and then used a knife to cut away part of the rock, scoring the sides of the face to make a natural path for us to climb. Reaching the summit takes two hours, but that’s when we move fast, not stopping to smell the perfume of the mountain laurel or admire the tangle of vines that snake their way through the thick forest of green. We push ours...

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