Mary Rothery

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Underneath Me She Dances” by Mary Rothery

Submitted to Contest #90

Alone, I have stood in this earth for many years. Life sparks and shoots around and within me as I stand. The sun sings to me of summer and my leaves rustle in reply. I am loved. I am young. I am hers and she is mine. She places me here as they guide her small hands, caressing me into life, her tiny reaching fingers stroking as she whispers to me of her bright life to come.  Underneath me she dances, small feet in the snow. Laughter and light scatter as she twirls in my shadow. They look on with lined eyes and tired smiles. The air ta...

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“A heron cries ” by Mary Rothery

Submitted to Contest #55

The window was as large as any you have seen. It stretched out across the entirety of the living room wall, opening the room up to the wilderness of the highlands. The water spread out beneath, a mirror of grey glass, birds soaring above and within. A lone grey heron, in his feathers the depths of the sky, stood on the near edge of the water. Solitary and still. Her eyes moved across the scene in front of her.  It changes constantly. She would say, her favourite feature of the view. Like the muddied peat of the swelling hills beyond, he...

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“The Bay Window ” by Mary Rothery

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #41

A light caught her eye. The smallest flash of a spherical rainbow, a chink of light captured on the breeze. It floated, alone, past the window, the large light-filled bay out of which she had been staring for a lost amount of time. The shadow of years lengthening in the afternoon sun.The lawn was littered with the detritus of a summer's day; a straw hat crushed in its centre - trodden and abandoned -, a bottle of sun cream, cap open and oozing, bleeding summer into the grass. The bubble continued its solitary path across her line of vision, ...

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Author bio

A novel in progress, an author in waiting. Always trying to find time... https://maryrothery.com/

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #41
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