Kirsten Schuder

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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“Lies in the End” by Kirsten Schuder

Submitted to Contest #268

This story contains sensitive content about death and dying. Reader discretion is advised. Before my husband John made me a widow, we spent all our time deceiving ourselves. His condition, his disabling chronic pain, worked with him to hide the truth. Chronic pain had no issues with maintaining the ruse. John blamed the chronic pain to explain why the doctor was wrong when he tried to get him to take heart medication. The doctor was incompetent, he would say. John gets stressed at doctors’ offices, so he reasoned his blood pressure always go...

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“Spoons” by Kirsten Schuder

Submitted to Contest #264

The Gribbles family was known in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia as the poorest family in Lee County for generations. The hard, clay, lime-ridden dirt was richer than the Gribbles. Harley oft remembered having to share clothing, shoes, and silverware with his brothers and sisters. Thus, when he managed to make his own money as a welder instead of spending the better part of his days inside a moonshine bottle, a revolution in his genetic lineage, all he asked his godforsaken wife was to keep the dishes clean and lots of silverware on ha...

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