Mary Corbin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

Stories (20)

20 Stories

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“Belladonna” by Mary Corbin

Submitted to Contest #56

Belladonna I used to get into so much trouble as a teen. My mom had her work cut out for her, I tell ya. And I was the youngest of seven so you’d think she’d have had it all figured out by the time she got to me. But, no I wasn’t anything like my sisters, they were all proper and stuff. I was more like my brothers. Curious and mischievous and into everything all the time. When I was 13 and in the seventh grade at a rough and tumble middle school I fell in with the wrong crowd, I guess you’d say. It was the 1970s and everyone was smokin...

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“Cerulean Blue” by Mary Corbin

Submitted to Contest #55

Cerulean Blueby Mary CorbinUpon leaving the company of Volga Petrovych, one would always feel as one did when leaving a dog shelter empty-handed. You wanted to feel compassion and provide companionship, be able to save her, but you just couldn’t find the room. She was a 42 year old, tall and frumpy, hair dye-from-a-box blonde whose St. Petersburg accent had not diminished one iota after 24 years of living in America. Words were heavy and dark as motor oil, dripping with anguish from her mouth all running together in a monotonously rapid...

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“The Last Face I See” by Mary Corbin

Submitted to Contest #54

The Last Face I See by Mary Corbin Willis LaMont was larger than life working the grill of Bobby’s Big Burgers in his white apron and bandana wrapped around a head filled with ideas and regrets. Genevieve, on the other hand, was curvy but petite and everyone always told her she looked the same as she did when she was a teenager. Ageless. Bright and beautiful as the day is long. The day they met was the day that would change Willis forever and restore in him a faith he’d long lost. Willis knew that his life could change in an instant be...

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“Double B Coming and Going” by Mary Corbin

Submitted to Contest #53

Week One: A teenager spending their final days at home before going away to college “Double B Coming and Going” by Mary Corbin Who gives a boy a name like that growing up in a teeny, tiny river town of less than a thousand residents in Jefferson County, Missouri? With most boys running around the softball field with names like Jimmy and Johnny and Timmy and Tommy, Boyce Brady didn’t have half a chance but to stand out as different. But different would finally be ok where he was heading in a few days. At 19, Boyce Br...

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“Then I Woke Up” by Mary Corbin

Submitted to Contest #53

Summer Love - the Quarantine Edition “Then I Woke Up” by Mary Corbin I could never have seen it coming if you had asked me two months ago but I fell in love this summer. Who doesn’t fall in love in summer, right? But this was no ordinary summer and this was certainly no ordinary love. This was my love from the summer of 1980. Come back to find me. With so much sitting around not going places, one does get a little restless to say the least and you sit on the couch reading your Facebook scroll and your Insty page and all levels of crazy...

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Author bio

I am a freelance writer, art columnist and artist. Can’t get enough vivid colors, well-told stories and walks in the woods.