Patsy Shepherd

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019

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“Who Needs Her?” by Patsy Shepherd

Submitted to Contest #21

The thing was, she already had a perfectly good sister, had had her for most of her life, so what in heaven’s name did she need another one for? A brother: now that was something different. She didn’t have a brother, never had had one, and if there was one thing it would have been nice to have, it would have been a brother. To do things. You know, like the car things, the yard things, the basement things, all the things that she had been responsible for all along.But no, there was God up there, snickering as He always seemed to do whenever H...

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“What's in a Name?” by Patsy Shepherd

Submitted to Contest #20

When Mummy started setting up her easel in the kitchen, two rooms away, it was safe for me to move carefully off the couch in the playroom, where I’d been told to settle (and to be quiet), to the doorway. From there, I could see through the dining room into the kitchen and could watch Mummy as she painted.I called her “Mummy,” but she wasn’t really my mother. My real mother lived far away and I only saw her for one month in the summer and then a week at Christmas or one at Easter. I called her “Mommy” and tried to make the two names sound di...

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Author bio

I'm a retired English teacher/editor, and I still work at both those occupations. I read my stories to my dog, Cheo, who is a great (though very critical) audience. She is trying to help me finish my first novel. Better very late than never. . . .