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Kim Smyth

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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Her Favorite Thing

Her Favorite Thing Shelley sits in her favorite orange and white striped beach chair, holding her camera and waiting for the precise moment the sun crests on the horizon. It seems to take forever as the sky turns from the darkest blue ever to a lighter shade, then the yellow starts to add more light before the sun ever appears. Soon, it will be worth the waiting as the orange melts into the yellow which has banished the night. Still her favorite thing in the world muses Mark, her life-long partner and best friend. He once thought he was her ...

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Transitioning

Weekly Contest #339

Transitioning Bethany is sitting in her kitchen with her dad drinking coffee. She's trying to make him understand why he had to come live with her but he is stubbornly refusing to accept the truth of it. Her dad had started falling a lot, hurting himself, and her adult son who was also living in his house with him couldn't watch over him while he was working-even though he worked from home. So the last time he fell, he cut his fingers so badly, all the band-aids in the world weren't going to fix it. They went to the ER and she convinced the ...

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That's What Friends are For

Weekly Contest #29

That’s What Friends are ForEver since the day you saw her through the chain-link fence in your back yard, in the summer of ’68, you knew she would be your bestie. From the elfish grin to her long, blond hair you felt you’d found a friend to the end. You somehow made an instant, life-long connection with this person, even at the tender age of seven, you could feel it. No matter her first words to you should have been taken as an insult (are you Chinese?) because of the shape of your eyes as you squinted in the sun, your heart opened up and le...

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The Color of Love

Weekly Contest #28

The Color of LoveThe day I left my parent’s home to strike out on my own, I never expected a life-changing encounter like the one that happened to me. I had been raised to love everyone, and to me, that meant regardless of race, color, or creed. Not to infer that I set out to find a man that my parents would so vehemently oppose, it just happened that way.Firstly, everything about my short time in the military was a struggle. I had to fight to get into the Army due to my gender and size, I fought every day to overcome issues like simply marc...

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What The Conductor Saw

Weekly Contest #27

What The Conductor Saw "Write a short story that takes place on a train"Jack and Marsha Dore boarded the train along with one hundred other souls that day, he forgot just what it was that made this particular couple stand out in his mind. The conductor kept noticing them though throughout the four-hour trip, and the police would later be grateful for his excellent attention to detail. As they made their way to their seats, he followed them so he could take their tickets. Jack was perspiring even though the day was cool, something like sixty-...

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Angel of Arvada

Weekly Contest #23

                                                                 Chapter 1                   AvalancheHuddled inside their warm...

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