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Elizabeth Hanlon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2023

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The Woman in the Mirror

Submitted to Contest #196

It’s a month before Marcie and Karl’s 40th wedding anniversary, and Marcie has been planning this trip for a year. She has danced through the past 90 days with glee, like a 16-year-old with a new car. Because Marcie loves planning events, and she has worked tirelessly through every detail, and every family member’s schedule, she is confident that Mary Poppins, herself, would proclaim this itinerary “practically perfect in every way.” Marcie is getting a facetime call from her daughter Victoria. “Hello sugar!” “Hi Mom! Little Emma wants to sa...

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Trash Man

Submitted to Contest #195

                            Janie                                            July 20, 1983 I pulled in the drive to my little summer cottage at the shore which, I shared with...

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I'll Eat My Hat

Submitted to Contest #194

I’ll eat my hat! My mother exclaimed, “I’ll eat my hat if that man shows up while I can still answer the door without a walker!” My fiancé looked as if he were trying to decipher a foreign language. Apparently, residents of the Philadelphia main line do not use such idioms. In a span of two seconds, I observed Jack’s perplexed facial expression failing to obscure his mental visual of my mother pulling out a fork and knife and cutting into her smart navy-blue derby she had just worn to church. But there would be time later to explain this and...

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