Lydia Tyburski

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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“Sarah and the Ferris Wheel ” by Lydia Tyburski

Submitted to Contest #212

Sarah Sarsaparilla has been going around in circles. She calls it the merry go round but her mother calls it the Ferris wheel, because she always seems to go up before coming down to earth and crashing. You’ve been working the same job at Bill’s Aquarium for 7 years her mother whines, over another plate of sour potatoes and sour peas. What ingredient makes them sour? Sarah thinks that her mother bottles up all the whining and puts it in a special bottle, then dumps it in every dish she makes. That can only explain the sour taste she adds to ...

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“The Case of the Artistic Bear ” by Lydia Tyburski

The bear had stars in his charts. When he was born his mother consulted many astrologers and face readers. She drove all over town in her little burgundy antique car, from palm readers to purple-clad psychics. The windows of the shops were filled with sparkly lights and pink neon. One blinked and flickered, (from a broken battery), but it seemed to be on purpose. His mother was filled with anxiety about the potential fate of her first born bear-son, and she had to know. Every reader, every future-seer concurred-this little bear had stars in ...

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a thirsty vampire desires potato chips with bloody lips and rotund hips she's in the background screaming with witticisms and quips that's what a thirsty vampire does for salty potato chips and she eats them with pursed lips pale from bloodlust her fingers in a white-knuckled grip upon the yellow salted ovals with crystals divine her neck is tilted forward her nose is supine