Alex Con Foo

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2022

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“The Rules” by Alex Con Foo

Submitted to Contest #160

THE RULES NOTE: This story contains content regarding violence, mental health, self-harm, and coarse language that some may find disturbing Imagine this. You’re trapped. It’s a room (not a prison, but it may as well be): hardwood floor, plastered ceiling, equally beige walls; you have a door and windows but you’re not allowed to use them. Well you can use them, it’s just against the rules. The rules. They’re the only reason you’re alive. That’s what you’ve convinced yourself of anyway. At the start, when you were still sane, you wr...

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“Out of Time” by Alex Con Foo

Submitted to Contest #130

Out of Time  When the island shrunk to only the size of a penny, I knew that we were out of time. How can the two of us possibly survive this predicament? The truth, harsh and honest, is that we can’t.  But a little optimism never hurt anybody. So I tell her that we will be okay, that we will get through this in the end. I think she wants to believe me; hell, I want to believe me. Yet, our burden as workers means that we see things for how they are. And how they are in this instance - well, it’s not particularly inspiring.&...

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