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Rachel Kaufmann

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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Fiasco

Rachel Kaufmann

Submitted to Contest #71

In retrospect we should probably have fled while the fleeing was good when Emma Jean came marching in the door brandishing a large sheet of paper about in an most eloquent manner and making enthusiastic noises. After all, we had know her for the majority of our lives and had several previous episodes to hark back to. The fact is that she was , and is, rightly famous for landing herself and anyone unwise enough to be in the immediate vicinity, in hot water on a frequent basis. Her motives are always as pure as the driven snow but somehow thin...

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Things In Life May Fade But Memory Never Will

Rachel Kaufmann

Submitted to Contest #39

He lay on his back gazing up at the stars and memory, that most beautiful and most agonizing of things conjured up the past in his minds eye as clearly as if the intervening years had vanished like mist before the sun.His first memory, as a very small child, was of lying on the soft spring grassstaring upward in fascination as his father pointed out the constellations and recited their names. Tonight , even after the passing of so many years memory brought back his fathers deep soft voice, the sound of the crickets , the soft sighing of the ...

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Pandemonium

Rachel Kaufmann

Submitted to Contest #38

When I was informed that I would have to work from home for the forseeble future I was a trifle uncertain as to whether I should let out a whoop of pure glee and do three handsprings ,or tear my hair and fall into a black depression. Never having been cast as a " Worker From Home" before I felt a bit at sea as to how best to play the part. However, upon giving the role a bit of thought I concluded that being naturally of a more buoyant ,humorous turn of mind, I would try out the whoop of glee approach first since it would undoubtedly be easi...

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