Tawni Winns

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“Bitter Almonds” by Tawni Winns

Submitted to Contest #100

My mother taught me that there were only 3 recipes that a woman needed in her arsenal. Lemon herb Engagement chicken to get a man to propose, chocolate layer cake to keep him around, and when you realized he wasn’t the man he presented himself to be almond buttermilk pie to make him leave. When Mother was just sixteen years old she met my father outside a diner. He was a 21-year-old mechanic smoking a cigarette next to his beat-up old truck. They locked eyes and well that was it. They welcomed little me a year later just a few months befor...

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“Death of a Patriarch ” by Tawni Winns

Submitted to Contest #3

“He’s dead.” That was her first words to me, no Hello or How you doing. There was no need for pleasantries. I didn’t care two shits about how she was doing and she felt the same way about me. But no matter how little we cared for each other she knew how much this news meant to me. “How?” I asked knowing there was only one “he” she could possibly be talking about.“9 millimeter to the forehead.” “Who?” “Auntie Doris,” she said it with zero emotion like we were talking about the weather. “Guess she finally got tired of ...

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