Olivia Kingree

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Desert Flower” by Olivia Kingree

Everyone has an opinion. Color doesn’t have an opinion. Color simply is—it is truth. That’s what my job was, to display the truth of the world around me. They all had ideas—the critics, the fans, the museums and financiers. They were using their mind before they were using their eyes. That's all you need to do, is see, really see what is in front of you.I found art in New York City too, but I didn't find art of my own. Everything was stiff and stable and stuck in the moment. I needed a break to break away and invent some...

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“Just Looking” by Olivia Kingree

This isn't usually my type of thing. I always scoffed at The Bachelor, Love Island, reality TV in general. I held myself to higher standards than that, turning instead to classic literature and film adaptations of Jane Austen romances. But no matter how much someone tries to avoid cheesy relationships, I believe that there is always something that tugs you back to that childhood wish for true love. I did ...

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“Busting Madam Marie” by Olivia Kingree

She didn't have any fancy degrees but she knew better than anyone. My dad mocked her essential oils and tarot cards, but I let her keep them. When everything else in the world felt like it was piling on top of me, it was nice to feel like my future could be determined in the stars or in my palm. And when we know so little about the world, why would it not be? I'm a gemini, the twins. I oscillate back and forth between hard-working determination and intense despair, between love and disgust, between stable self love and intense confusion.<...

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“All Day in the Summer” by Olivia Kingree

What if it wasn't devastating? What if she said, I won't crumple like a ball of paper, I will emerge from the writing made by these male fingers, hair raising from the knuckles, and I will rise. Sometimes it is hard to be nine. It's hard when you live on a foreign planet, under cover of seven years of rain. It's hard when the door closes and the darkness falls, and you feel like all you have ever known is darkness. But y...

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