Mindy Reed
Bio
Mindy is an, editor, narrator, writer, librarian, and educator. The founder of The Authors Assistant published Women of a Certain Age: Stories of the Twentieth Century in 2018 and This is the Dawning: a Woodstock Love Story in June 2019.
Stories (75)
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The Spider and the Curious Boy
I am not a villain. I was just being a spider, doing what spiders do in the woods. I wasn’t asked to be a part of any experiment. All I ever wanted was to be in a tree, spinning a web, catching flies. Flies are much tastier than the sodium serum they force feed me here three times a day. I was content to remain where I was, but when the glass beaker came over me, I was trapped. I had heard of others being taken in this fashion by curious boys. They were usually brought back here after a day or two.
By Mindy Reedabout a year ago in Fiction
An Imperfect Union. Content Warning.
Russ tried to keep his knees from shaking as he looked out onto the harbor at Galveston Bay. Ships at this time of day appeared as sleeping hogs with inactive tugboats resembling piglets, resting in residues of their excrement and discarded slop. Men and machine sneak on top of the water, looking for the open ocean and escape. They hide themselves among the pilings, then dart out to the freedom of the sea, only to be caught by the hands of waves and roughly slapped back.
By Mindy Reedabout a year ago in Filthy
White Out
Why didn’t I leave Tuesday? What am I going to do? She paced the cabin and watched as the blizzard became a white out. “If I’d heeded the warning, I wouldn’t be stuck now.” She called Liz and said, “I’m not going to make it to Thanksgiving. I can’t see passed the deck.” The signal wavered and then went dead, stopping all communications into Estes Park. Then, the cabin lost power and she was plunged into darkness. Clutched with fear, she made her way to the door. Something jounced her back.
By Mindy Reed2 years ago in Fiction
