M.E. Kirby

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2022

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“She Quit” by M.E. Kirby

Submitted to Contest #166

“I quit!” What? She couldn’t quit. Yet there Tira was: brown hair jumbled in saucer sized curls, metal rimmed glasses sliding down her nose, coffee stained shawl off one shoulder, wooden squirrel earrings swaying back and forth. Tira was here, no doubt about it, and yelling over his desk with quite clear intentions. But she just couldn’t. . . “I’m telling you, Roy, I am done!” Done? What a weird word. To be done means something is completed and quitting can only happen mid-completion of doing whatever needs to be done; ...

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“Alla Two” by M.E. Kirby

Submitted to Contest #162

Pesto alla Genovese. Pesto alla Geno…vese. Alla! Pesto. Genovese. Genoooveeese. The Italian vowels took twirls in Meg’s head as she scanned down the glossy menu of Mama Caruso. It was a quaint restaurant, the ones packed on weekends but not necessarily the weekdays. Also, her favorite place to go after a trying day at work. Reading over the words for a fourth time, the only meals Meg could decipher were “margherita pizza” and “lasagne”. Sighing, she let the menu fall out of her hands and catch her face instead. A breeze from ...

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I can write all day if I wanted to and still wouldn't know what to put in a bio.