Leasa Moore

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Apples” by Leasa Moore

Submitted to Contest #189

This story could/can hit many of us where it hurts the most. Whatever that is. This ain't no fairy tale. Wasn't meant to be. It was terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. I felt like I was walking around in a black-and-white photo where everything was shades of gray, including the sky. There were no stars on this night. It wasn’t the stars that I turned my face to the sky to see. I was looking for the Lord. I didn’t see Him. I saw apples. Apples by the bushels. I blinked my dry eyes to blink away the dryness and take anot...

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I've been a writer since I got an A+ in my 6th grade English class on a short story written in class about Halloween. I didn't nurture the wonderful feedback written alongside my A+ in red ink. Fast Forward: About 10 years ago and unemployed again, I looked up from my cup of coffee at a local Klatch and saw a flyer on the wall asking people to join a creative writers group. I signed up. That group didn't last long. I went back to work to the tune of 12-hour shifts. Writing went on the back burner. I'm not working again, only this time it's called retirement. And, now I'm writing my little fingers off. I don't think I'm good at it. Yet! If the yet factor, factors into my endeavor to become a good writer and pushes me to keep attempting. I can live with that until the day I die.