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Jeanne Kiesinger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2023

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Make me Melt

Submitted to Contest #186

"What the hell are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with your other girlfriend or home with your wife?""I'm pretty sure this is exactly where I want to be. Can we take this conversation to your room? Unless you want the whole hotel to know your business.""When we're alone in a hotel room there's never a conversation. You can lie to me right here in the stairwell. Isn't that why you're back?""Why are you doing this, Tina? Don't shut me out.""I'm not the one shutting anyone out. You just left me here when I needed you the most. Did you even co...

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That Can Be Fixed, We Aren't Made of Money

Submitted to Contest #185

"Wait. What are you doing with that lampshade?" "It's broken and covered in mouse poop. I'm throwing it away." "What a waste! It can be fixed and cleaned. No wonder you and Bob haven't got a pot to piss in." My sister-in-law, Ivy, was determined to keep her toppling, mega-stash of unwanted, broken, stained, and unusable items from being chucked out with the trash, where they belonged. When faced with confrontation about the questionable usefulness of items she would throw insults at my husband and me to change the subject. "What lam...

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Until the Lights Come Back On

Submitted to Contest #184

Ahh, the first cup of the day. Always the best. I pull up my seat to the desk and begin working on book three of my series, G-Is for String. I've been lazy lately, with the cold weather and gray skies numbing my brain. It's time to rev up the action and create more tension between Tina and her ex- boyfriend, Jake.The last scene I wrote left them in a bar parking lot, Tina hiding behind the building watching the plot thicken after Jake's wife found him making out with another woman at a cozy table in the back of the place. Gee, I wonder how h...

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Never Have I Ever

Submitted to Contest #183

Never have I ever. Not yet, anyway. My last twenty years have been lived inside a cloak of matronly invisibility. This is a common complaint among women nearing our seventies. We have become see-through. We are no longer considered women. No one thinks of us as desirable or attractive, except our dear husbands. That should be enough to satisfy our self-confidence, right?One would think so. However, I recently returned to a local fitness center that I had previously signed up to just before the pandemic swept us all home to gain weight and be...

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