Tammy Kl

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

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“The Persistence of Memory” by Tammy Kl

Submitted to Contest #102

“Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.” Stephen King When the stranger arrived, I was in the back of my closet, busy helping Wonder Woman capture the bad guy with her golden lasso. That day the bad guy was Superman, because I didn’t have many dolls as a kid, and my only other choice, Cat Woman, was inherently innocent, because she was a woman. I heard the doorbell ring. “Honey go get the door!” I heard my mom yell from the bathroom. I set down the dolls and trudged to the front door. I yanked on the doorknob wit...

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“The Shiva, 1955” by Tammy Kl

Submitted to Contest #100

The Shiva, 1955 For the rest of her life, the smell of pickles and pastrami would be the smell of death. Irene was 13 years old, and her mother was dead. Even after everything – the ambulance, the hospital, the horrible evidence of her relatives taking turns shoveling dirt onto the coffin, Irene couldn’t believe that her mother was really gone. Now there were all these people (so many people!) gathered back at the house, nibbling on plates of deli meat and coleslaw, talking about Mama in the past tense. For a moment, she wondered if...

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