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Linda Nicklin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2023

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The woman who got lost in her own handbag

Submitted to Contest #225

It was stifling hot, and the rush hour traffic was gridlocked. A siren wailed in the far distance. I held my breath as I moved through a haze of exhaust fumes that was hanging behind the idling cars. This was a part of town that I knew well, and I was just thinking about a back street detour when something grabbed at my attention. I hardly recognised myself, but there was my reflection in a round brass mirror in the junky antique shop window. My face looked drawn but my body was almost completely obscured by the most beautiful handbag that I...

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