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Kit Minden

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

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Brackish Footprints A Pathways Alliance Short Story

Kit Minden

Submitted to Contest #313

Brackish Footprints is a short story set in the world of *The Pathways Alliance*, a post-apocalyptic saga where animals and humans form interspecies alliances to resist the lingering threats of a fractured world. The protagonists, River and Silver, are intelligent raccoons—larger than their ancestors and gifted with telepathic abilities due to radiation exposure generations ago. In the wake of a limited nuclear exchange and environmental collapse, certain humans and creatures absorbed gamma radiation and. were twisted by it, becoming what so...

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Ghostwriter in Time’s Thin Wall

Kit Minden

Submitted to Contest #304

As told by Dana Carter on The Moth stage, Brooklyn, NY.You don’t forget the moment when you realize the world is stranger than it looks. Not weird like déjà vu or déjà heard. Stranger, like the line between thought and form, life and death, the moment when a wall thins just long enough for a message to slip through it.For me, it was the fall of my seventeenth year. The air was brittle with cold, the trees half-naked and clinging to rusted leaves. Inside our farmhouse, the floors creaked with every step, and the scent of woodsmoke clung to th...

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Betrayal

Kit Minden

Submitted to Contest #165

I worked hard to ace my grad school entrance exams and got a full teaching and research assistantship that covered most of my costs at an Ivy League college. The school was a pressure cooker where every word I spoke or wrote had to be justified, every idea had to be defended, and every minute’s worth of work had to be crammed into only 20 seconds to be sure to meet each deadline on time. This made for a fraught competition between students most of the time, but when we worked together, it was an incredible experience. I knew it would pay off...

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