Lisa Lange

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Apples and Trees” by Lisa Lange

Mom works. She never picks me up from school, and two miles is too close for a bus pickup, which is fine by me because I like cutting through the woods. Especially on autumn days, when the air is cool, and the flies and mosquitos are gone, and basketball practice hasn’t begun. I like the quiet. I like the wordlessness of the walk. A pretty sugar maple dressed in vivid orange frills beckons me off the path. I stand...

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“It Was Your Own Goddamned Fault What Happened To You.” by Lisa Lange

“Where are you off to?” asked a voice, but Ellie stayed focused on the window – on the walkway, on the people, on the activity, on the train on the opposite track that pointed in the opposite direction, in the direction she’d rather be going – and she let the voice float away. Six years was a long time, and not enough time, to stay away. The train chugged forward, and a young woman waved from the walkway – straig...

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“The Photograph” by Lisa Lange

Penny placed the coffee and croissant in front of Frank, and he watched a stranger’s hand reach for the cup. A thin hand. A bony hand. How had his nails gotten so long? He read somewhere, years ago, when he was young, that cartilaginous features lengthened with age, like chins and noses, while muscles atrophied, and bones shrunk. He looked down at the baggy crotch of his belted khakis. “So true,” he said, and he laughed...

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“Amelia and the Beautiful Big Red Handbag” by Lisa Lange

           Our first encounter was on New Year’s Eve. I was picking up a few last minute good-luck foods for the evening – black-eyed peas, cornbread, pickled herring, grapes – walking from my apartment to the grocer. It was cold. That’s what I remember first when I feel the memory in my senses, when I feel the depth of the memory. I feel how cold it was, how the sharp absence of smells in the air precipitated my noticing the details.I remember I noticed the last bro...

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