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Sharon Hacker

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2025

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While Her World Was Falling Apart

Submitted to Contest #314

The air didn't move. It was too wet to stir. The heat never let up. There was scarcely a dab of shade to be found. Maud finally shut the house, loaded the kids into the car, and set off for town. It could only be Missouri during the Dog Days.The Everly Brothers played on the radio. With the car windows down at least there was the pseudo breeze to relieve them.Then up one hill and down the other through that strong farm country they saw field after field of corn all the way to town.Corn loves this kind of weather. People kind of melt in it. B...

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Correcting Vision

Submitted to Contest #305

He sat at the table full of hatred. Directed at me. His eyes never opened onto his heart and soul the way my father's always did. This was the creep I had married! And I'd just found out about his affairHow could I have been that stupid? I'd been thinking I was a married woman. What I really was, though, was the butt of a joke. Now all these years into this wrong way tunnel it hit me with that childlike clarity I barely remembered in myself. This guy is no prize!He says he loves me but then he hits me in the face. So what will it be? Love? I...

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