Misty Dyan Batson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023

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“Man on fire” by Misty Dyan Batson

Submitted to Contest #270

It was still an hour before sunrise, the kitchen was dimly lit with an oil lamp sitting on the linoleum floor, lighting up the cupboard doors as if the rug was on fire. “Why do you use that thing?” William looked up at his wife standing in the doorway leaning on the frame. “We have electricity; you know” She said smiling. He was sitting on the linoleum next to the oil lamp that he bought a year earlier from ‘Your junk, my junk’, a thrift store at the edge of town that sold things that people didn’t want anymore. “I like it” William said...

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“From the Belly of a Blue Moon” by Misty Dyan Batson

Submitted to Contest #205

Parasites were living inside my belly, they made a new home there beneath my ribcage. My temperature must have been over a hundred and six. My brain was literally boiling in my skull but in the jungle, there was no thermometer and there was no doctor, there wasn’t even a bed. I lay on the dirt floor watching the full moon beam through the thatch hut window, I felt I could touch it if I could only raise my arm. There were 6 elders sitting in the dirt in a circle around me, three men and three women. I was still wearing the panties...

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