RuthAnn Barnett

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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“Red and yellow. Black and white.” by RuthAnn Barnett

Submitted to Contest #96

  She stood in front of the open door while the teacher and the school secretary spoke in the corridor.     "I got the last new student; this is an imposition!"   "It's only for two weeks."   She shifted her book bag from one side to the other. Her eyes never left the floor. The leather on the top of her shoes had a crack. The stitching was coming apart at the toe, but they shined with fresh polish. Backstitch embroidery accented with an occasional flower covered the line from the let-down hem.   &nbsp...

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“Forbidden Fruit” by RuthAnn Barnett

Submitted to Contest #95

Twenty chairs usually lined the long farm table. This room, but for the table and chairs, was empty most of the day, and yet, it was here that Hannah felt most connected to her family. Tonight she eyed the extra chair warily as she and her sisters carried heaping platters of food from the table as the family assembled. Daed sat at one end, his bib overalls caked with the toil of the early spring planting, Mamm at the other end tucking stray wisps of hair back under her kopp. Mammi and Daadi sat across from each other in the middl...

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