Shanda Kersten

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2023

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“A Mother's Lies” by Shanda Kersten

Submitted to Contest #289

         Alison was always raised to respect Cherokee teachings and land, and people, She thought she was part of that world. When she got into her 40s and one of her nephews had done one of those DNA ancestor kits, he had found not a single drop of indigenous blood anywhere. A very confusing result to Alison. There was no way it was correct. Her sister had gone to school on a tribal scholarship. Of course, she had to do her own test. Aside from finding all sorts of relatives that she hadn't known...

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“The Librarian” by Shanda Kersten

Submitted to Contest #211

The man had just quietly disappeared. He left behind the bookmark to end all bookmarks. Adam, the librarian, couldn’t find that at the moment either. It just wasn’t in the book he was fairly certain he was reading. When you have five or six going at once, it’s hard to keep track of what mood you were in last, am I right? He thought he was reading a book of Robert Frost poetry, but the marker was not there. This is the problem with working in a library. It is entirely possible that he had laid it down on a side table during a slow moment, the...

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