Andrea Brobst

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Saturday Night” by Andrea Brobst

Submitted to Contest #104

“Are you coming tonight?”“Is that some kind of joke?”“Is that?” Lenny’s voice adopted a tone of innocence.When I looked back at her, she stopped walking and stood there staring at me, her one finger pressed against her lower lip. When I first met her, I thought her absent mindedness was an act. I learned fast I was wrong. Her oversized brown coat hung around her defensively married with a thick scarf of olive green. “You do know it’s like seventy degrees out, right?”“There is a chill in the air.” She illustrated pulling her crocheted beanie ...

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“Puddles” by Andrea Brobst

Submitted to Contest #61

Taking an old blanket, I pushed aside the carpet of dust formed on top of the heavy wood chest. My once trove of secrets and obsessions that morphed as I grew. At the age of seven it held Matchbox cars, wrestling action figures (and anything else I did not want my little brother to touch). Age twelve it held football memorabilia, at sixteen it held band shirt with dirty magazines folded neatly with them. Its final charge was to hold things I could not bear to part with after college and ready to take on the world. The lid squealed with surpr...

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“Last Minute” by Andrea Brobst

Submitted to Contest #56

“Shit!” Alex exclaimed narrowly avoiding a wave of gutter fluids inspired by the distracted taxi driver and their obnoxious yellow cab. Spending nearly three hours carefully choosing the right shirt(old faithful light blue Hawaiian button-up with pink flamingos and palm trees mingling in a fashion that said, Hey I’m fun—but thoughtful enough to choose a collar); tucked into a pair of well fitted gray pants (another favorite being comfortable and yet versatile); finished off with classic red Chuck Taylors (high-tops of course). All the though...

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