Lisa Slaikeu

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“Roy Christiansen” by Lisa Slaikeu

Submitted to Contest #47

On a cold Tuesday morning in late January, you sit inside the campus museum for your hour of front desk duty with your coworker J.D.. In the far distance you hear the campus bell chime nine times. There are no visitors, only the sound of the ticking clock. You and J.D. pull out your laptops from your backpacks to escape boredom. As you check your campus e-mail, you notice a subject line that makes you stop in your tracks. You click on the subject line, Roy Christiansen. Faintly the name rings a bell in your mind; he attended the same church ...

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“Behind the Story” by Lisa Slaikeu

Submitted to Contest #46

I stared at my paperback book with the sky-blue background and a simple yet lovely curved strand of pearls on the front cover. At the top, in elegant cursive was the title of my poetry book, Making Pearls, and underneath was my nom de plume. I turned over the book to the back cover, slowly rereading the note that all proceeds from this book would go towards funding college scholarships in my local community for students whose parents were not able or chose not to contribute to their education. Gently I flipped through the pages of the book a...

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“Together in the Dark” by Lisa Slaikeu

Submitted to Contest #42

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.” The quote was written in cursive in the center of the black chalkboard with white chalk in the Introduction to Philosophy class along with the current date in the top right corner of the board, the fifth of March. The window near the teacher's desk of the room showed a cloudy, dark gray sky. Students filed in, took their seats, and placed their textbooks on their desks while they waited for the professor to start class. Quiet chatter filled the classroom before the bell...

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“Buddy the Escape Artist” by Lisa Slaikeu

Submitted to Contest #41

Giggles filled the air from the little boy in the family. This only meant that he was about to do something that the rest of the humans in the house would not approve of. Then the little boy went to the front door. My ears perked up as I heard the front door open. No one in the family never let me go through this door. Now was my chance! Forever grateful to the little boy, I ran out the door. “Brother!” the girl in the house shouted. She was the human I considered to be my mama out of the four humans who lived at the house with me. Her hair ...

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“An Uncommon Bond” by Lisa Slaikeu

Submitted to Contest #39

In a land where all things are possible through the One who created everyone and everything, there were as many unique beings as there were stars in the sky if someone looked up and tried to count them all. Even if any two looked alike they each had their own combination of abilities given by the One who made them. Once a year many of the young ones would meet at a special gathering place, secluded from the rest of the world, for a week which in turn made them more aware of both the differences between one another as well as what tied them t...

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Author bio

I reside in the Midwestern United States. I enjoy writing poetry, song lyrics, and stories.