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Lorna JC

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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The Kettle Is On

Lorna JC

Submitted to Contest #128

You hear the shuffling over to the corner of the kitchen. The clink of the tin as your mum opens it just wide enough to get the teabag out, two teabags actually, she's making a pot. You'll need a whole pot after the day you've had. She knows there's something up, so she invited you round for a cup of tea. The pewter teapot lid is open and waiting for the kettle to click off. You sit at the table. The kettle is heating up, it's gargling and bubbling and steaming. Suddenly you think it might override its off-switch and rebel from the everyda...

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A Dream

Lorna JC

It's cold. The dreary winter wind is howling. Bleak desperation is on show in the haphazard row of weather-beaten tents along a disused railway line. People, pushed away by people, with gritty resilience, huddle over the occasional fire, one women tries hopelessly to dry a soaked boot over a choking flame, the rain doesn't let up to help her. They all want to leave, but it's hard to. French authorities don't let them stay in one place for long, and they are often moved on. Crossing the Channel to get to the UK is the ultimate goal for mo...

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Family Holiday Politics

Lorna JC

Submitted to Contest #119

You read to the girls before bed, it's your turn, and anyway it's nice to get the opportunity to as you don't get to see Ava very often. She's your cousin's daughter and lives in Canada. The two girls have tucked themselves up in a makeshift bed on the pull-out sofa, they've zipped their sleeping bags together to make one giant one, and they are giddy. When you finish the book they don't seem any sleepier, but you kiss them goodnight, switch off the light and leave, then you sit on the stairs just outside the room. You hear the excited low...

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