Margaret Renshaw

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“It was never there.......then.” by Margaret Renshaw

Submitted to Contest #274

Having a bath was a bit of a performance. There was no bathroom. The toilet was in an outside falling down shed. You wiped your bum on newspaper. This was the 50s after all. No shower of course, they weren't invented until the 80s or something, and until then you made to with a rubber hose attached to the bath taps. Anyway, enough of the history of bathrooms.....back to 'having a bath'.The kitchen contained something, which a first glance, looked like a biggish box with a worktop attached to the wall. Ingeniously, whenever a bath was called ...

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“Best Birthday Ever” by Margaret Renshaw

Submitted to Contest #1

It wasn’t meant to be like this? How does that song go……’I hope I die before I get old’?I never really wanted to die though. Just thought I’d make the three score and ten and then just fade away until I disappeared. Nothing to be afraid of. Didn’t want pain, disease, dementia. Seen enough of that. One hundred! It’s ridiculous.Oh, I’ve seen them on the tele….. those clowns who think reaching one hundred is something to brag about, who bask in the glory of having made it, as though it’s some kind of personal achievement, like winning an Olympi...

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