Alex Gray

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“A Gentleman Mortician and a Vespertine Visit” by Alex Gray

Submitted to Contest #92

Around five years old, when he first started hearing them. Soft, muted weeping echoing lightly through the cavernous halls just beyond his bedroom door, and by ten he was accustomed to sliding out of bed, yawning, padding to his doorway to step out into the endlessly shadowed maw veining through the upstairs of his family’s home. The moaning creak of the floorboards was easily avoidable if you knew where to slide your feet, which by then he did, and he’d whisper into the dark: “You’re okay. It’s all over now, but stay as long as you need to....

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“On Ancient and Gentle Things” by Alex Gray

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #91

It turns out that his name is Evan and he’s a med student, originally from Nebraska where his kind are few and far between, where all kinds are few and far between. He is also very lonely, something I have gathered from nights spent observing the way he hunches over his books and notes as the light of the moon inches across his hardwood floors. He makes himself coffee - obsesses over it really, collecting latte machines and espresso drips and French presses and three different models of old-fashioned coffee makers that take turns occupying t...

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Author bio

Alex Gray writes things, hopefully strange and elegant.

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #91

On Ancient and Gentle Things – read story