N B Edwards

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“Express News” by N B Edwards

Submitted to Contest #12

In the near distance, the train to Chicago blared its horn. The sound was mostly drowned out by the mechanical thump and whirr of the production line, not to mention the loud chatter of a dozen local people doing what they always did when stuck in a room together: gossip. "Well I heard young Clem is sweet on Lizzy's daughter," said Joyce. Her clever hands, wrinkled and thick-knuckled, made quick work of sorting through the green stream of apples. Good one, good one, good one. Aha! Bad one! In a flash, she whipped it off the line, no second ...

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