Linda Boroff

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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“What's So Funny? A Love Story” by Linda Boroff

Submitted to Contest #140

Part I  My mother stands in my bedroom, a can of canary yellow paint overturned atop her head, its bright, creamy contents cascading down her face and red bouffant hairdo. Seeking the center of the earth, the paint plunges on past her shoulders, chest and arms until it encounters the hardwood floor, rebounding in a mighty splash. Obedient to the laws of physics, it disperses outward in waves that appear chaotic but are really not. The paint finally subsides into rivulets at her feet and forms a sort of coastline, whose configuration, if...

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“Everything I Have Is Yours” by Linda Boroff

Submitted to Contest #140

       “You’ll never guess who called me this afternoon,” I can recall my mother saying. It was dinnertime, and she was at the stove spooning something lumpy from a frying pan into Tupperware. We — my father, my brother Lester, Bradley Willis and I — were at the opposite end of the kitchen around a pink and gray formica dinette.         “Who?” asked Bradley Willis, mouth full of steak.         “Why Helen Leam,” said my...

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Author bio

Graduated from UC Berkeley, an English major. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2016 and 2021. My first two novels were accepted & published in 2022 by two separate companies: a Young Adult novel ("The Dressmaker's Daughter") is set in my grandmother's Romanian village during WWII. The second is a dystopian novel ("Twisted Fate") about a prion pandemic. My fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Gawker, McSweeney's, Epoch, The Guardian, Cimarron Review, Prism International, Hobart, Moxy, Parhelion, Drunk Monkeys, The Boiler, Blunderbuss, Shark Reef, Literary Heist, Crack the Spine, Thoughtful Dog & others. I wrote one produced thriller ("Murder in Fashion") about the Versace killing. I have a short story and adapted script under option currently to Sony and Road Less Traveled Productions. I've won some fiction and screenwriting awards and been anthologized a few times. To support my storytelling habit (and hoard of rejection slips), I write blogs and advertising for Silicon Valley companies.