Menu

More apps built by Reedsy

Assemble a team of professionals

The writing app for authors

Writing courses, events and memberships

Get your book reviewed

Weekly writing prompts and contests

Menu
Prompts
Contests
Stories
Blog

Judith Jones-Ambrosini

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

Stories
Comments
Library
7 Followers
0 Following

5 Stories

76 karma pts

?

The Waxed Coat

Weekly Contest #360

Judith Jones-AmbrosiniThe Waxed CoatIt was a dank, rainy afternoon. I sat in a café, sipping rich, comforting hot coffee. It was served in an oversized white china bowl. That’s when I saw it. Not the woman ... the coat. The moment it entered my line of vision, I knew had to have one. The woman wearing it joined a group of friends at a corner table. When she slipped it off, I had to restrain myself from walking past the table, snatching up the coat, and bolting out the door. Of course I wouldn’t do that ... but ... that’s how much I liked the...

8 likes 0 comments 0
Read story

The Waxed Coat

Judith Jones-AmbrosiniThe Waxed CoatIt was a dank, rainy afternoon. I sat in a café, sipping rich, comforting hot coffee. It was served in an oversized white china bowl. That’s when I saw it. Not the woman ... the coat. The moment it entered my line of vision, I knew had to have one. The woman wearing it joined a group of friends at a corner table. When she slipped it off, I had to restrain myself from walking past the table, snatching up the coat, and bolting out the door. Of course I wouldn’t do that ... but ... that’s how much I liked the...

0 likes 0 comments 0
Read story

The Orchid Man

Weekly Contest #293

A Story byJudith Jones-Ambrosini The Orchid ManIt happened on the day that my Polish cousin Sophie and I were the only ones waiting for a train in the Moreton-in-Marsh station in rural England. We spotted an elderly gent approaching the station. He was dressed in a time worn tweed jacket a bit too large for his slight frame. His trousers were a tweak too short. He walked quickly reminding us of the white rabbit character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland who was always late. “I’m late I’m late for a very important date.”  Sop...

14 likes 1 comment 1
Read story

A Christmas Memory

Weekly Contest #283

 A Christmas Memory I began paging through my time worn Christmas Cookies notebook to decide on which cookies to make. That’s when I came across Signora Cinque’s pignoli cookie recipe. I smiled as I recalled the Christmas memory that always warms my heart. Although it occurred some forty  years ago it will always seem like it happened yesterday. It was when I lived in Positano, an enchanting village on Italy’s Amalfi coast. At that time Positano was a quiet hamlet nestled along the coast. Neighbors knew each other and ve...

3 likes 0 comments 0
Read story

50 CARROT CAKES

Weekly Contest #270

     Judith Jones-Ambrosinijonesmagee@optonline.netFrom Truths, Travels & Fiction story collection50 CARROT CAKESIt was rich and fabulously delicious.  It was mysterious. It was the dessert my friend brought to a dinner party at my tiny Greenwich Village apartment in 1975.  At that time cheese cake was all the rage. But THIS was a carrot cake. These words had not yet whisked their way into a baker’s lexicon. I asked my dear friend what was in this so called ‘carrot cake” She replied … Oh, carr...

11 likes 1 comment 1
Read story