Penelope Stephens

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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“Broken Things” by Penelope Stephens

Submitted to Contest #139

 “Oh, grow up.” This was my mother’s reaction when I came out to her as being transgender. I think she knew already. I had probably left her clues: a bra not so carefully hidden, evidence that I had been using her makeup, leaving a razor stubble ring around the bathtub after a Sunday morning bath to shave my legs while she was off at church. I didn’t consciously want her to find out, but maybe unconsciously . . . . I was just lucky that my father had passed away, because he would've done more than tell me to grow up, he would've thro...

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“A Room at the Radisson” by Penelope Stephens

Submitted to Contest #97

TW: transphobia  Tiffany Murphy looks out the window of the Guess Who Tavern And Music Hall in Asheville, North Carolina, where she works as a bartender. The rain is pouring down on Haywood Road, the remnants of Hurricane Alice hitting the city as predicted. She reads the ads written on the window in shoe polish, which are from her perspective, backwards. “THGIN CIM NEPO” she reads. “7 MP SYADNOM”. Tiffany wishes it was open mic night, but it’s not. It is, to quote the Beatles, a “stupid bloody Tuesday”, and that, coupled with the weath...

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Author bio

A transgender writer/singer/songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina.