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Baptisma Pyros

Submitted to Contest #163

The car window is open just a crack. Through it, I can smell the fumes and hear the rumble of the city. I would like to stick my nose out of that crack, but Shannon will say No. I was doing that until she told me to Sit on the seat and Stay. What would be best is if she opened the window all the way: then I could stick my whole head out and still Sit. Something is wrong today. Shannon is driving very quickly, so that everything outside the window whizzes past before I can see it clearly. She is afraid, and her fear makes me anxious. A p...

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What Price Judas Pays for His Silver

Submitted to Contest #159

Xavier tried not to stare as he followed his cousin through the building; Jona was obviously used to this, and unaffected. On the outside, this looked like a typical warehouse, with a few security guards patrolling. On the inside, it was an illegal dinosaur fighting haven. Xavier wondered how his cousin had gotten admittance, and almost regretted having come himself. Then he pushed the feeling down. Just this once, it was necessary, and he didnโ€™t ever have to come back. Jona headed for a chain link fence enclosure anchored to the c...

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Things Used to be One Way, but Now They are Another

Submitted to Contest #155

The room seemed to be spinning. Jayger squeezed his eyes closed, then opened them again, struggling to focus his sleep-blurred vision. This was not the room he had been sleeping in. Sitting up, the 19-year-old brushed his blond hair out of his eyes and tried to figure out where he was. There were no windows. In the dim light of a hanging lantern, he saw pieces of leather, bits of metal, and bolts of thick cloth scattered around the room, overflowing from boxes, spilling off of tables, and piled on the floor.His eyes landed on a sin...

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We Would Be Rivals

Submitted to Contest #149

Humid heat makes the lush grass of summer waver in the sunlight, and the close air makes me pant. However hard I try, I do not sleep as much as the lions. Instead, I lie awake, listening. No breeze stirs the sparse leaves on the umbrella thorn tree above us. No matter how hot it is, lions always have to be touching each other while they sleep. This touching can range anywhere from one tail touching another to an entire body draped over another. Fine for lions-their bodies can take a lotโ€“but dangerous for a spotted hyena like me. I am mu...

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Reedsy Prompts: One Year Update

NOT THE PROMPTIn early 2021, I discovered a website called Reedsy Prompts. While watching a writing advice video on the Reedsy YouTube channel, my interest was piqued by the mention of a no-entry-fee writing contest. A family member had recommended I enter a writing contest of some kind, but the idea of an entry fee had deterred me. Free entry? I clicked the link. Hmmm. Prompts. You fit your story to a prompt. Not sure if I like that . . . I guess these prompts are okay. I get ideas just reading some of them! Not that I donโ€™t have ...

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Nomenclature

Submitted to Contest #144

ClickWhirrrFLASHThe raptorโ€™s eyes danced with black spots. Irritated, he growled and shook his head, trying to clear his vision.The unknown humans on the other side of the fence were very distracting. Their noise especially. โ€œLook at its toes, Brad!โ€โ€œWhatโ€™s it shaking its head for?โ€ โ€œProbโ€™ly โ€™cause you stink so bad.โ€โ€œDude, youโ€™re the one who just came from football practice!โ€Tap tap tap FLASHJuvenile shrieks. Sub-adult chatterings. Adult mutterings. All caused anxiety.Click FLASH click FLASH click FLASHThe raptor glared in annoyanc...

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Vigil

Submitted to Contest #142

Candlelight gleams on the wooden rafters overhead as the chanting of The Exsultet fills the darkened church. Then the voices of the choir swell in multiple responsorial Psalms, and readings are intoned as flames flicker atop the white wax tapers the congregation hold in their hands. A quiet thrill goes through me as I listen to the first chapter of the book of Genesis - โ€œAnd the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.โ€ Though I can hardly see it in the sepul...

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Bible Excerpt

Josue Chapter X Five kings against Gabaon. Josue defeateth them: many are slain with hail-stones. At the prayer of Josue, the sun and moon stand still the space of one day. The five kings are hanged. Diverse cities are taken. When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had done to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king) and that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their confederates, He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon w...

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Recent Writings #1 | 2-3-2022

NOT THE PROMPT!Dhwani Jain's Challenge"Write a story with a curtain as the MC/important character or item."The Fourth WallEven when I stand on my tip-toes, the peephole in the heavy blue curtains is too high for me to see through. A murmuring reaches my ears: the audience. I remember coming here when I was younger, seeing these same curtains ripple and sway between scenes. I was just another watcher then, glimpsing the hidden world, leaving once the performance was over. Now I am on the inside, a part of the magic, an actor among many, ...

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New Arrival

The semi idled in the rush-hour traffic, the driver occasionally swiping an arm across his perspiring forehead. โ€œMan, I hope that thingโ€™s alright,โ€ he muttered. The vet sat tight-lipped and silent beside him. Inside the trailer, the raptor stirred. Heโ€™d been sedated for this trip. If he were awake, heโ€™d try to move within his crate. He could break his long, stiff tail, or give himself a head wound, rubbing and bashing against the metal walls, or injure himself in a myriad of other ways. And so heโ€™d been forced into slumber.Dreams played...

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Tour Guide

โ€œThanks a lot,โ€ I hiss at Will. He smiles good-naturedly, running a hand through his thick brown hair. โ€œItโ€™s about time you led a tour. Youโ€™ll be good at it; just tell them what Iโ€™ve been telling you." He meets my incinerating glare with his cool blue eyes, and keeps staring.Eventually, I give in. โ€œAlright, fine, Iโ€™ll lead one.โ€ I nearly spit the words.Will has been my friend for a long time, but recently, I havenโ€™t seen much of him. He kept telling me that he was โ€˜working his job.โ€™ When I demanded to know what was so engrossing at his place...

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The Last Call

Everything was ready for the ritual. The chairs and sofas were ranged in close, straight rows, all of them, more or less, facing the smaller room where the open casket rested. There's pressure in my head, that numb feeling Iโ€™ve experienced before: like a headache coming, or a stormy ocean trying to come out of my head, but not quite. As I walked into the main room of the funeral home last night, to attend the wake, I passed two acquaintances, both younger than me. They were sitting on a couch in an anteroom, looking distraught. I stoppe...

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From Ashes to Hope

Submitted to Contest #89

Notes: |Antonia = priceless one | Cezar = they are hairy | Gaius = to rejoice (possibly) | Junia = born in June | Marcus = warlike | Valentina = strength, health | | Amadeus = Love of God | Summanus = before the morning | Bible Reference:    Romans 8:12-13, Revised Challoner-Rheims Version  Place: Rome Time: Thursday, July 19, AD 64    Antonia fled along the narrow, dirty streets of Rome, fighting to stay on her feet amid the masses of people who were also fleeing from the fires. If she fell, no one would...

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