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Margie Willis

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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Carnival of Carnivores

Weekly Contest #100

  TW: cannibalism There’s no way to sugarcoat my sisters. During the holidays, the two eldest engage in some curious traditions, to put it lovingly. I am one of the rare clan members adventurous enough to enjoy their all-nighter pow-wows, which are a cross between a séance and a pioneer cookout with musical nuances of Native American spirituality.   A hardy constitution is the best seatbelt for an excursion up to my sister Ellen’s rugged mountaintop, the highest peak between San Jose and Santa Cruz in California. So, buckle up. &nb...

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In My Chevy Van

Cruising down this untried track, a sawtooth ridge fills my windshield on a carefree autumn day back in 1990. Peaks are clustered all around and decorated with lingering traces of snow, each crest exceeding four thousand meters in elevation. Bouncing along high in the Colorado Rockies, tumbleweeds careen here and there, some sticking in a wood-slat fence along the roadside. Picturing a plump doobie . . . what should I spy up ahead? A luscious pair of buns swathed in tight, almost-transparent spandex doing a slow steady grind up this mounta...

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Prairie Enigma

Weekly Contest #94

Prairie Enigma . . . by Margie Willis A pasty sky loiters over the sprawling prairie in a stance of tortured reckoning as a sporadic tumbleweed somersaults through the squandered buffalo range. An oxpecker wannabe jigs from one hairy spine to the next in search of a steady pelt that needs bug management. A lagging flock of Canadian geese hitches onto a southern bluster while scattering a fluster of honks. Buffy the bison scrapes her hoof across the ice crust, not freeing any of the dry prairie grass shielded by an unbroken pane. Winter f...

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