Lisa Hickerson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2022

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“Quarterly Punishment” by Lisa Hickerson

Submitted to Contest #162

Eloise stares blankly at the laminated paper as she ponders the broth they would be using to make the Italian wedding soup. She attempts to look truly and entirely enrapt by … whatever it was that her date was so proud of accomplishing. She had gathered enough to know that it was quite a feat he achieved this afternoon (big enough of a deal he felt that it so simply explained away the fact that he was almost 2 hours late for their date). She had just been paying her tab at the bar when her phone lit up with that familiar tinkle sound she had...

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I am a small town healthcare employee with a desire to write and be read.