Mindy Reed
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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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Invitation
When her attention returned to the gentleman at her table, Arthur felt alone again. He searched his memory for a line. As a veteran actor, he should be able to conjure up one line that described how he felt. Their unspoken exchange had been about Florence. She and the man were trying to remember the name of the restaurant across the square from the Basilica. Arthur did not reply audibly, but his lips shaped the word, “Oliviero.”
By Mindy Reed2 years ago in Fiction
Hanging Out
By noon it was already one hundred degrees. It was expected to reach 112o in the next couple of hours. Racine needed to do something for her children. Ever since she was a kit, she’d been aware of the human encroachment. The homes and concrete only contributed to the oppressive heat. Water was scarce. The food in the garbage cans and compost bins used to be plentiful until locks were placed on them, making access to their contents impossible.
By Mindy Reed3 years ago in Art
A Single Stamp
Jenny examined the small black notebook she had picked from the woman’s pocket. The alphabetized pages were blank—except one. “Jenny” and a phone number. She dropped it and a one-inch a square fluttered to the ground. She copied the phone number onto her palm, and returned the square to the notebook.
By Mindy Reed3 years ago in Fiction
February 3, 1959
He’d felt the rhythm of their dancing from his mother’s womb; bore witness to it through the first decade of life. Music spilled into the kitchen from a radio in a wooden cabinet. Whenever Buddy Holly came, the volume was turned to the right and music thundered off the walls. They spun and flipped and twirled.
By Mindy Reed3 years ago in Fiction
