Kristi Sturgeon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

Stories (3)

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“Monster” by Kristi Sturgeon

Submitted to Contest #225

Monster Once upon a time, there was a girl named Sylvia Snyde. Sylvia was very beautiful. Every morning, she looked into the magic mirror that she had bought at a local antique shop. The mirror was enchanted. It could speak, and daily, it told her how beautiful she was. No one is your equal in beauty, it would say. So Sylvia knew she was beautiful, and that knowledge began to change her. At school, Sylvia and her entourage would sit on the tables near the front of the school, judging their classmates. No person was safe from their captious...

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“Maaaaybe” by Kristi Sturgeon

Submitted to Contest #221

MaaaaybeBy Kristi Sturgeon For a period of my life, I was obsessed with ghost shows. It’s not because I was scared of such things. Any show about hauntings and the search for spirits intrigued me, so I watched them all. I was fascinated by the technology and how those machines were used to hear things we could not hear and see things we could not see. So when my cousins, who were paranormal investigators, came to visit from Kentucky and offered to take me on a ghost hunt Thanksgiving night, I jumped at the chance. Tim and his son, Mike,...

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“This Is All My Fault” by Kristi Sturgeon

Submitted to Contest #165

This Is All My Fault By Kristi Sturgeon This story is a character study of Judas Iscariot and therefore has a small bit of gore.  It also contains death and suicide. Tuesday, April 2nd      I did what the men asked and was well-paid for it.  We agreed on a signal, and I gave it, and they arrested my boss on some kinda trumped-up charges.  But I didn’t think it would go this far.  I mean, I thought they’d put him in jail for a few days and let him go–you know, just enough time to teach him ...

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Author bio

I live in the middle of the United States, and I teach English to high school students in a neighboring town. My best friend is my husband, and we have two incredible adult sons as well as a very spoiled dachshund named Bilbo Baggins. In my spare time, I write fiction and poetry, knit, and drink a lot of coffee and tea.