Melissa Keeping

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Secondhand Romance” by Melissa Keeping

Submitted to Contest #54

Being put “in a home” was the worst thing I could imagine. I’d seen it happen to a few of my friends. Here they were, trying to enjoy their retirement as much as possible- knitting and baking and Bingo and senior’s day at Value Village- and then they suddenly had no freedom. Even the ones that were optimistic about it were disappointed. They started out with “Well my daughter says that they have a bridge club right in the home!” and “I can still bake. I just have to do it in a supervised area.” That quickly turned into “I don’t get to ...

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“Celestial” by Melissa Keeping

Submitted to Contest #51

Celeste lay looking up at the stars, her back pressed into the sand. “Ugh, that was great,” Chris groaned from somewhere beside her. The only other sound was the gentle rolling of the waves. Eventually Celeste heard Chris lighting a cigarette but her mind was drifting. It was the last weekend before school went back and she couldn’t stop obsessing over her senior year. Homecoming and the winter formal and prom and graduation. She already could hardly wait to pick out her prom dress and have grad photos taken. Chris was saying something...

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“Benign Lives ” by Melissa Keeping

Submitted to Contest #51

I had been bugging my parents for a pet for a really long time. What I really wanted was a dog- a little guy to follow me up to the soccer field and sleep in the tent with me when my buddies had camp outs. My mom always said that it wasn’t fair to leave a dog home alone all day while she and my dad worked and I went to school. What my parents brought home instead was this huge, scruffy cat. He had ragged ears and ginormous paws and long, black fur. Right through his black fur was a long, white scar just above his left eye. It made it l...

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Author bio

Writer. Educator. Mom of 4.