Linda Casson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2023

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“Foreshadowing” by Linda Casson

Submitted to Contest #207

“Cut!” the director shouted for the fifteenth time. Nancy made a new mark on her notepad. A gang of Extras had spent the morning waiting on their hard folding chairs, most too sleepy to make conversation. Writing down each command had given Nancy's mind a purpose, though that purpose was meaningless. The moment she had forced herself from bed in the dark that morning now felt like it was months behind her. And yet there was more daylight ahead. The gaffers, best boys, the runners, the lighting team, the script girl, the caterer, hair and m...

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“Every Picture Tells a Story” by Linda Casson

Submitted to Contest #195

Bud and I had been on the brink of divorce for at least ten years. The finale came with his affair with the second wife of his long-time tennis partner. Her name was Katrina. I’d met her a few times and because she was blond and athletic I probably should have known something would happen with Bud sooner or later. According to my husband, the attraction didn’t last long. When he made his confession, there wasn’t much to tell. It was over before it began, he said with obvious regret. In any event, he felt it necessary to explain to me...

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“Nowhere to Go” by Linda Casson

Submitted to Contest #184

The first sign of trouble was the silence from our aging analog radio. Frida and I woke up most days to a rock ’n roll classic floating out on the air, great songs we had known the lyrics to forty years earlier. It was the missing music that woke me. Once my eyes were open, our bedroom was suspiciously dark, and when I looked out the window, the traffic lights on the streets below weren’t working. The paltry morning traffic was unsettling for a typical New York workday. It was raining hard. The face of the bedside clock had stopped at 2am...

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