Todd Linder

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“The Old Woman's Garden” by Todd Linder

Submitted to Contest #31

The Old Woman’s GardenThe old woman stood straddling a row of beets both hands massaging her lower back. A sigh escaped the wrinkled mouth as she wondered for at least the second time that day why she continued to plant and inevitably weed more garden than she really needed. Didn’t she have enough to do what with working at the café. The truth was that years as a farm girl and then a farm wife had conditioned her for this response. Besides, growing up on the farm there were better uses of cash money than buy...

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“Beside the Sea” by Todd Linder

Submitted to Contest #8

Beside the Sea           The boy had lived by the sea as long as he could remember. The faded cottage was enough to keep out the weather but not much to look at. It was close enough to the docks so that he could boat watch to his heart’s content with the old pair of binoculars. If you were interested he could tell you which one was the ketch, yawl or sloop by how they were rigged. And if you were really interested he would point out the Heather Dawn or t...

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Author bio

ABOUT ME I have been involved in education in several capacities from instructing elementary and junior high students to soldiers for many years. In my roles as a parent and educator, I spent countless hours reading aloud. It was an outgrowth of my addiction to books from childhood. I was the student caught with a book in my lap when I should have been absorbing the finer points of arithmetic. With encouragement from family, I have embarked on a journey to create the kind of stories that I hope will captivate readers transporting them to faraway times and places.