Vanessa Shields

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“This Kind of Jealousy” by Vanessa Shields

Submitted to Contest #287

This Kind of Jealousy  Jacey throws a glass coffee mug, (Zwilling Double-Wall Insulated Glass Mug), across the kitchen. It hits the freshly painted wall (Behr, Sweet Coconut Milk, M230), and shatters into a trillion pieces.  “This is what you’ve done to us!” she screams, her voice crackling with jealousy, her manicured pointer-finger nail (Orly Cold As Ice - breathable treatment + color) jabbing at the air toward the pile of glass rubble.  Blayne drops his head, his second chin hitting his chest first. “I’m sorry, babe,” he m...

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“The Point is You” by Vanessa Shields

Submitted to Contest #278

Saturday, July 28, 1984 My dearest Bertie, I am coming to you now.  That night we were together, Bertie, I believe we linked back to the stars from whence we came. I think we felt the Grand Beginning rumble in our tummies…dancing with the delicious meal we’d shared at Grimley’s On the Oceanside. (I love that you let me feed you a forkful of butter-soaked lobster…that you rolled your blue-sky eyes in taste-ecstasy as you chewed…) Did you know I’d saved three paychecks to afford the meal? I’d wanted to save every cent so I could share a f...

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Writer, mother, chocolate-lover...writing and dreaming and loving in Ontario. www.vanessashields.com