Sally Jupe

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“LOST IN THE DARK” by Sally Jupe

Belinda bent over double as the bat enveloped her with his enormous leathery wings. It was like suddenly being covered in a delicate, yet strong, elastic latex sheet, held firmly in place around her by a skeleton of thin bones that she could see inside the skin of the dark brown wings. She felt that the heavy weight of his body bearing down on her was literally sucking out all the air from her lungs. Her knees b...

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“Belinda's Journey to the Ones” by Sally Jupe

I am an engineer and teacher of science and math, so this prompt really spoke to me. The form my story takes is inspired firstly by Pascal's Triangle: Pascal's Triangle is a triangular array of numbers named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal, who studied its properties in the 17th century. It is created by starting with a row containing the number 1, and then co...

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Author bio

Hello and thank you Reedsy for calling me an 'Author' in my header!! I never considered myself that. I am 64 here in Feb 2023, semi retired, engineer and teacher, from the UK, living in Spain with five beautiful cats and a husband. After years of wanting to write something other than educational or business work I have finally done it! And hope to do more and more soon.