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Hillary McDonald

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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A Thousand Sexy Words

Submitted to Contest #244

“Mom, what did you do?”I had often seen the parent-child relationship reverse over time in my aging friends, and I had convinced myself that that would never happen to me. The tone in my daughter Amy’s voice when she called me on the phone that day, however, told me otherwise.“What do you mean?”“You haven’t seen it?”“Seen what?”“Pull up your Facebook.”My tablet was on the side table by my chair, and I set the phone down to retrieve it. My granddaughter Lisa was sitting on the couch, and she gave me a quizzical look.“It’s your mother,” I said...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gallery

Submitted to Contest #242

My nose itches.It started as a light tickle, but now it’s so bad my eyes are watering. Three people are still watching me, and if I move now, it’ll get taken out of my paycheck.Any minute now, they’re going to walk away, and then I can scratch, I think to myself.I’m probably one of the few people in the world who went to an art gallery and ended up as part of the exhibit. But that’s what happens when you (accidentally!) destroy a priceless piece of art that is more valuable than your ordinary mortal soul.Two people walk away. The third linge...

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