Skye Griffith

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

Stories (1)

1 Story

36 karma pts

?

“A Puzzling Last Wish” by Skye Griffith

Submitted to Contest #258

The photograph lay on the floor where I’d be sure to find it and showed Ada in her twenties when she’d already become a New York City Ballet sensation. I’d unlocked the door to her closed-up house, the sunlight pouring into the familiar entryway, remembering treasured past visits. She’d given me a shiny new key a few days after settling in at the assisted living facility. She said she’d changed all the house’s locks and for me to hold onto it.              I’d smiled, amused to...

2 comments 2
Read story

Author bio

Skye Griffith’s first novel, Bone Hash is scheduled for publication in June 2025 by Artemesia Publishing, an independent press based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Bone Hash, an archaeologist uncovers prehistoric, cannibalized bones and risks her life and profession to discover her dig’s secret connection to a murder on the Hopi Reservation. A review is available here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/skye-griffith/bone-hash/ Skye has published freelance articles for the National Endowment for the Arts and the International Festivals & Events Association and other periodicals focused on the arts. She has visited and researched dozens of archaeological sites in the American Southwest and toured villages on the Hopi Reservation described in the novel.