Stevie Burden

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2023

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“Lightning Strikes” by Stevie Burden

Submitted to Contest #209

Lightning Strikes Stevie Stephens Burden “Looks like some rain out there,” my traveling partners says, as she leans a little forward in her seat peering out at the sunlit road before us, looking in the direction that we will soon be heading. I agree. I don’t know if she is ready for the rains that come in this part to the country. Unlike our Oregon rain, when the rains hit here, it is usually from clouds that pile up and rub together to create wind and thunder the likes of which we rarely if ever see on the coast. They dump the kind of t...

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“In the Closet” by Stevie Burden

Submitted to Contest #208

In the ClosetStevie Stephens BurdenJuly 21, 2023It’s gloomy and rainy on the coast of Oregon, despite being mid-summer. I’ve decided to make use of the forced indoor day by organizing the huge walk-in closet in my guest room. Most people have a junk drawer but me, me, I have a junk closet, a big closet. Jam packed with everything that I haven’t wanted to find a place for or get rid of, lives in there.I pour a cup of coffee and head upstairs to the closet. Opening the double doors wide and looking at the amazing amount of accumulation is a bi...

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“In the Weeds” by Stevie Burden

Submitted to Contest #207

In the Weeds By: Stevie Stephens Burden It was early but Mickey was already in the kitchen. She worked on all the front of the house chores that had to be done before she could open the coffee shop. She needed to find out what their baker had come up with overnight. Then she would need to put them in the display cases. Mickey, never knew what to expect on any given morning or day despite being co-owner of the restaurant. It was just the nature of the business. She prepared for another busy day of tourists, locals, serving three meals, co...

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Author bio

Stevie Stephens Burden, 69, lives in Wheeler, Oregon thirty miles from Tillamook, where she was born. Stevie is a storyteller, writer, mother, and grandmother to five. She was raised in Alaska and Oregon and often draws on her experiences from life along the northwest coast as inspiration for her writing.