Needs Chocolate

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2023

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“Carve Your Name into My Heart” by Needs Chocolate

Submitted to Contest #227

The 911 missing person call from the Sunnyside Nursing Home came in at 8:45 PM on Christmas Eve. My partner and I had signed on for the extra holiday shift because we didn't have a family waiting at home for us. We were just a couple of twice-divorced, bitter single folks counting down the hours to retirement, living on donuts, coffee, and adrenalin. As we headed toward the outskirts of town where the Nur...

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“What My Therapist Doesn't Know” by Needs Chocolate

Submitted to Contest #226

It's a freezing day in December, almost Christmas. My breath puffs out like clouds of cigarette smoke in the clear night air of the motel parking lot. At the moment, I wish it was cigarette smoke because I can't remember being this nervous in a very long time. Maybe the Christmas Eve service twenty years ago, when a pushy grandmother shoved her mini-skirted teen granddaughter up to the piano in our little Baptis...

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“Body Bag Barry” by Needs Chocolate

Submitted to Contest #182

Recently, I was searching an online dating site. Don't ask me why. I'm happily married. Perhaps I just wanted to see if I was as invisible as I felt. After the first fifteen minutes with a current photo on my profile, fifteen eager fellows were sending me hearts and asking to chat. Wow. After an hour there was a steady stream of requests to meet or chat. Overwhelmed by all the attention, I tried ...

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“Take Me to Church” by Needs Chocolate

Submitted to Contest #181

My life had been slowly falling apart since meeting my current boyfriend, Jake, in July. He was incredibly handsome and persuasive and I'd been in over my head since our first conversation. However, he was married and better with words than deeds. In my head I knew what had to be done, the rest of me hadn't quite caught up though, and my heart was breaking. I needed to search my soul and knew exactly where to do that.

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Author bio

Upstart writer, with one published memoir, G-Is for String, on Amazon, with an audiobook in production now. My second book is a romance/thriller called Save One Bullet. It is currently being formatted for print. The sequel to G-Is for String will be published in 2024, and the next romance/thriller will be out by Summer 2024, TEASE. A retired stripper and sunday school teacher. Yes, you read that right. Sunday school teacher! I have been in love with writing all my life and at the tender age of 68 decided to start writing seriously. Well, not seriously. I'm never serious. But I now write for a living and am moving into my own cardboard box shortly.