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Submitted to Contest #172
The Destination The sky is grey, pulling all the colours out of the meadows. Even the sheep look gloomy as they huddle together. The drizzling splashes on my windshield with a rate that’s enough to block my view, but just not enough to leave the wipers on. ‘Turn right here’, Google maps informs me that I’ve almost reached my destination for this weekend: a nice B&B at the foot of a mill. It’s Friday and my job is done here! Just one weekend and I can go back home. It’s been a wonderful year here in the Netherlands, but I’m also glad I...
Submitted to Contest #171
The warm, sandy wind is hurling around me, blowing my hair in my face and plucking my clothes. There’s no way of telling where the ground ends and the sky begins. The rock is supporting me, holding me up, the sky embracing me. The enormousness of the distance around me makes me feel like a speck of dust in the vast universe, small, insignificant and yet, bigger and taller than I have ever been before. We’re here in America for our honeymoon, Fred and I, but it hasn’t been a walk in the park, so to say. He managed to ruin every moment that ...
‘I’ve got a plan!’ I said to my husband Tom as I rushed into the living room. I grabbed his wet, soapy hands and he could barely drop the knife he was washing. ‘I’m going to write a Reedsy short story!’ He knows I’ve been struggling with writing, after my first book. That was about three years ago, when I was in the middle of a burnout. It was recommended to me as a form of therapy, but the whole process of creating the characters, thinking about the story lines and doing research, secretly grabbed me somewhere along the way. But then, a...
Submitted to Contest #170
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