Val Hickey

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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“Was She Safe?” by Val Hickey

    She set out alone with her newborn baby into the wilderness, a rocky and wooded habitat for bears and bad men.      She didn’t second-guess going alone with her two-week old son asleep in his carrier on her chest. Wilderness solitude was customary for her. Her mate was on a job. They were in a cold stand-off. She didn’t miss him that day, nor any day. The germs of growth and likewise decay will always bud and root, seeking the sun’s light and the earth’s darkness in unison.  &nb...

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“The Heart-shaped Box” by Val Hickey

Submitted to Contest #133

The box is kept in the second drawer of my bureau, along with a cerulean blue silk tie rolled into a neat round, a gold Cartier watch, a Waterman fountain pen, and some coins from my travels. I’m rather proud to say that the box’s heart-shaped form is still intact since it has been carefully transferred time and again into at least five bureaus over the thirty years since Maya gave it to me on Valentine’s Day in our tenth grade English class.  I was a newcomer to school and Whitebridge that year. Maya was open-hearted, slightly pla...

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