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Lisbeth McCarty

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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Just Seventeen

Lisbeth McCarty

Submitted to Contest #35

I was just 17, like the song says. Carly, Jady, and Candy all came to my house at 5:00 p.m. so we could get ready for the big spring dance. I was already jealous of all of them. They had cool names that ended with "y." My name was Jane. Plain Jane was a moniker that applied to me with ruthlessness. I planned to fix the plainness with make-up. If possible.Jady was the best at changing her looks into okay to pretty. I watched in awe as Jady started by adding clip-in extensions to thicken and lengthen her hair. It was like a beauty magic ...

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I am Liza

Lisbeth McCarty

Submitted to Contest #33

I am Liza On the Friday night before Christmas, Dan (the man I had just started dating) and I had been to see a movie that was so ridiculous that we spent the rest of the evening making fun of the stupid film dialogue. I laughed until mascara was running down my face. We made fun of that movie until 3:30 in the morning! By the time Dan left, I was so tired that I merely dabbed cold dream on my face, pulled on my long-sleeved, floor-length nightgown. The nightgown was printed all over with a...

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Off The Menus

Lisbeth McCarty

Submitted to Contest #12

My dinner party was not supposed to become a crime scene, but it did. There was a sneaky thief among us, and we needed to find the culprit by the end of the night. Even though the party was supposed to be fancy as far as having a four-course meal, I had let the guests know that they could feel free to dress casually. After all, I had a new rescue dog named Angel, and she had a habit of jumping on people to greet them. I wouldn’t want anyone’s expensive clothing to get ruined. &n...

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Birthday Scare

Lisbeth McCarty

When my daughter Jayla was turning six, all she wanted for her birthday was a balloon walker. She was fascinated when she went to a friend's birthday party and saw the cartoon helium balloon on a string with pennies in its cardboard shows to hold it down just enough to walk around the room.In some ways, this was a sad birthday because Jayla had been sad that her father and I were going through a divorce. I was willing to do whatever I could to make Jayla's birthday a happy one.Jayla has an April birthday, and the day was perfect weather as w...

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