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Heather Burkett

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2023

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"Dear Mom": Motherless On Mother's Day

Weekly Contest #344

(Trigger Warning: illness, grief, death, loss, infertility, cancer) When my mother was pregnant, she kept a journal of notes addressed to me.Upon her illness and passing in 2015, my father gave me her notebook.I began writing my own letters to her – a way to continue the tradition she started, a tether between this world and the next. 10/13/2018Dear Mom,I think I’m in love with the man I might marry one day.We were talking about the future, and we both agree we want children. It’s scary being so close to 40 – and we’re not even married yet...

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#4 - Floss Daily

Weekly Contest #231

December 31st, 2023 Happy New Year’s Eve!  What a wonderful time for fresh starts and new beginnings! I am really looking forward to starting over in 2024 – THIS IS MY YEAR! I know if I want to achieve my dreams, I have to go big or go home, but I can do this! 1.      Cut all complex carbohydrates and refined sugars. 2.     Exercise for an hour daily. 3.     Use my new 5-step skincare routine nightly. 4.     Floss every m...

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Flawless

Weekly Contest #225

“Watch your step.” The decrepit old man growls at me from behind the distressed wooden counter.  The liver-spotted, crepe-paper-thin skin that covers his skull glistens in the dingey-yellow streetlights that filter in through the front window of the store. Tufts of yellow-gray hair poke out from behind and within his ears and he scowls so severely that there are deep creases that run from the sides of his nose to below his mouth. As if on cue, I step into the store, tripping over the threshold in the process. I apologize, slip...

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