Barney Defanfaler

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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“Paintings, Where do you want to escape today?” by Barney Defanfaler

Submitted to Contest #242

PAINTINGSWhere do you want to escape today?By Barney Defanfaler ‘Ah heck,’ thinks Barney as he hears steady footsteps plodding up the Windsor Gallery stairs and sees a flashlight beam coursing across the opposite wall. His wristwatch displays midnight. ‘Why is she so early? I’m trapped.’Barney runs around a corner into the art gallery's second-floor east room and hugs the wall. His head bumps into a painting frame, and he quickly grabs it to steady it.‘What the flip?’ he thinks as his hand sinks beyond the canvas. Barney turns to find a fami...

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“The Never-Discovered Sapien Extinction” by Barney Defanfaler

Submitted to Contest #241

The Never-Discovered Sapien Extinctionfrom “It Only Gets Better” by Barney Defanfaler============================================================== “It has been said: 'To repeat the past is to make the same mistakes.Let me add, “To repair the past is to prevent the mistakes.” Allen, Princeton 2014 Shui, in a saffron robe, is walking from the plane through the international baggage check when he spots a large sign entitled ‘Shui Pu Chan.’ As he walks towards it, a familiar face peaks over the sign, then under it, then to the left a...

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“Red Feather Flight” by Barney Defanfaler

Submitted to Contest #240

Red Feather Flight By Marc Stutzel Eagle Tehan is mindfully sensing the afternoon's northern breezes as the tranquil young man sits upright, yet relaxed, with lids gently closed.  His legs dangle over a wooden platform that sits atop a Great Grandaddy-sized lofty Red Oak. The focused young man is full-blooded First Peoples in heritage: his mother, Cherokee, and his father, Lacota. Eagle’s stocky, lean, well-defined muscular anatomy is fitted with cream-colored leather shorts. His Indigenous DNA-expressed bronze skin is gently toned from...

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