Aaron Kohlhoff

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2023

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“Damned or Free” by Aaron Kohlhoff

Submitted to Contest #233

Sensitive Content: Profanity, Drunk Driving Clayton wiped the bar with a moist rag that smelled like sour milk. The bar wasn't dirty. It was just a way to kill some time before the second-shift crowds filed in. They were always a rowdy lot and the mindless repetition of cleaning dirt that wasn't there helped him mentally prepare for the inevitable mayhem. Tonight would be especially chaotic. Everyone was looking forward to the 666th episode of 'Damned or Free' and the word on the street was that it was going to be the best episode ever.Som...

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“A Lovely Day” by Aaron Kohlhoff

Submitted to Contest #216

Today is a lovely day. The way the morning sunlight radiates off the wisps of vapor coming from this magical brown liquid is really quite mesmerizing. I could watch it for hours and, most days, that’s actually what I do. My little home away from home is nothing they would gush over at the court of Versailles but it’s warm and dry and I look forward to it opening every day at 5:30 AM. I am typically the first one in line and I take great pride in my punctuality. Most of the employees here are very kind and some actually greet me by the...

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“The Curse of Happiness” by Aaron Kohlhoff

Submitted to Contest #213

At 11:32 AM, Sarah Covington oozed into her office for the day. She didn’t look terrible, but she didn’t look great either. Her hair was pulled back into a loose bun that couldn’t quite tame all of her unruly black curls. Her outfit was stylish but wrinkled and her perfume didn’t cover the smell of her morning cigarettes. She adjusted her gloves and didn’t bother taking off her sunglasses as she approached her secretary Gina, who handed her a venti dark roast with two shots of espresso and three shots of Bailey’s. Sarah gulped the coffee and...

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“The Book of Sins” by Aaron Kohlhoff

Submitted to Contest #211

Elizabeth Parris had only been working at the Anton LeVay Memorial Library for about 300 years and she knew there was a lot she needed to learn but still, any volume of The Book of Sins should have been easy to find. There was a whole damn floor dedicated to the series. Every day, part of her job was to pick one out and she’d never seen them out of order. This was the one area of the library that was meticulously organized. The books were always where the Library of Congress Classification system said they should be. Elizabeth looked down at...

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“Uncle Dan” by Aaron Kohlhoff

Submitted to Contest #210

Uncle Dan was always annoying but on the rare occasion he was right about something, he was completely unbearable. For years, actually decades, he invariably took over Thanksgiving dinner with tales of flying saucers and abductions and unnecessarily graphic descriptions of orifices being probed as our family passed the turkey and mashed potatoes around the table. He’d take out his phone and play old clips of him calling into Coast to Coast AM discussing his theories and experiences with George Noory. I swore if I had to hear about how he met...

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Author bio

I'm a Los Angeles-based writer, marketer, and amateur cat collector here to practice my craft. I enjoy reading sci-fi, thrillers, historical, and suspense novels. Nothing makes me happier than writing a short story that makes my wife angry.