Marilyn Carter

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“"Can You Keep a Secret?"” by Marilyn Carter

Submitted to Contest #55

“Can you keep a Secret?” my brother, Kurt asked me, and I immediately said to him “Sure. What’s up?” as I shrugged my shoulders in a sisterly manor as if it was a given that I’d keep a secret for him.  Uwe boy little did I know how difficult this secret was going to be to keep. The timing couldn’t be worse either. Dad and I are about to go on a father, daughter vacation together.  Mom felt it was important that I get to have this special memory with just my dad as her, I and my brother have gone on lots of vacations ...

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“Cold Lake to Bayfield” by Marilyn Carter

Submitted to Contest #52

Cold Lake, Alberta  With tears slowly dripping down her cheeks, Molly holds in her hand the one thing that Donny couldn’t give her before now. He did everything in his power to provide for her and to give her what he thought she wanted and needed, but this one thing he couldn’t do for her, until now.   She’d give anything, including this cheque she held in her hands, if it meant she could have her Donny back with her, sitting here at her side. Holding her, loving her.  She’d give anything to hear his laughter on...

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“Fairies and Diamonds” by Marilyn Carter

Submitted to Contest #35

  I love the Spring. When everything is so fresh and starting to sprout. By this time, even the dirty snow left on the side of the roads and gathered dirty and black on the flower beds, brings joy when you see a little green sprout poking its' little head out through the obstacles in its' path reaching for the sunshine that it knows is there, just out of sight. Faith, has it growing and pushing against the hardened blackened snow as it stretches to feel that glorious sunshine upon its' tiny little leaves. Stretching, stretching unt...

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“Game Night Again .... and again.” by Marilyn Carter

Submitted to Contest #34

March 22/20       I sit here, listening to the tv, but not really watching it, while my family; husband, daughter, her partner and stepdaughter, all play a game.  Sequence. It’s a good game, but I’m all gamed out and we’ve only been secluded for less than a week. What on earth will I do if we have-to do this for months?      I am not a socially adept person. I’m the type of person who likes my own time. I’m quite happy read...

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Author bio

As a grandmother of 7, mother of 2 and married for 47 years, I had put off my personal passion for writing. My confidence was broken by teachers during my early school years. However, with my husband's encouragement I am trying my hand at story writing again. I had been writing rhyming poetry throughout the years for our staff and doing the occasional short story. I like photography and I do a lot of poetry with photos as a combined genre. It is my desire to spend my retirement (whenever it might happen) writing our memoir.