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Andrew Venn

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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Here comes Mr Clumsy!

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #302

Write a story with a character making excuses :- “Here comes ‘Mr Clumsy”!“I’m sorry for knocking those flowers over, but I really couldn’t see, despite those flowers being bright and bold, and being right in front of me!“There’s water still in the vase, but most of it is on the floor,and I won’t bother scooping it up, when it’s easier to pour some more!“I’m sorry about wetting the bed last night, but I had too much to drink,and it was that home-brew cabbage wine, that I found deep within the kitchen sink!I definitely wo...

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Bully Boy

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #298

Here he comes again….… the ‘boy who brings no joy’! I was beginning to fear venturing into the school playground, because I would usually be a victim of ‘this’ boy’s frustrations! Both of his parents had disappointed him, and they would soon split-up, after his Mother decided to leave their family home to move into another house, with her new lover, who was another woman, who she befriended in the early years of the 1980’s, which was a very controversial matter, especially in a small Cornish village, and it didn’t abide with his wannabe m...

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VINYL SEATS

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #293

‘Vinyl seats’! “We’re going on a journey tonight, and we’ll be going on the train, My Dad, or, ‘who you call Uncle Albert’, is in a lot of pain”! “He’s in hospital now, but when he comes home we’ll all be there, and our journey is overnight, to show him how much we care”. ...

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BLACK

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #292

BLACK The morning alarm loudly rang to begin this gloomy day, but in this warm bed I really wanted to stay! The weather outside had snow ‘up in’ the sky, and in this warm bed, I just really wanted to lie! I felt okay, despite my fatigue, and I arose to have a shower, and I had plenty of time before work, because I arose in the 7th hour! Before I showered I required a shave, and I ran water into the sink, and this was our first home, and ‘for now’ the basin was bright pink! But, standing was difficult now and my legs began to shake, and ...

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The Pendant

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #269

It would be my first experience of any meaningful sadness, and the atmosphere in our household would determine my somber mood, and it would be very solemn for many days! The reason would sadly be very clear to this household, because our dear and beloved, Great Aunty, would not bless this earth again, and this unfortunate loss,, for me(‘a young man in his teenage years’) would, unusually see me cry like a baby! She was a loving and very caring soul, who applied those assets in her many long years of nursing, and her devotion to this job ...

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Gone but not Forgotten!

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #267

It was an unusually dark Winters evening, which was devoid of any comforting light from either the, ‘usually bright’, moon or any twinkling stars, and there was also a chilling silence around this small town, ‘as if’, other people knew something that I didn’t! “It could have had something to do with the weather”? This little town, in where I lived, was very quiet for a Friday evening and I didn’t see anyone else roaming around the streets, like they’re usually seen scuttling from one pub to another one(‘for a relatively small town i...

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‘All play and no work NOW”!

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #252

The morning began like any other Winter’s morning and I wasn’t ‘overly keen’ to get out of my cosy and comfortably warm bed but, at least, it was sunny and bright outside, with the frost glistening on the lawn ‘as though’ it had been lightly covered with glistening diamond icing; The alarm clock awoke me from my very deep sleep and I arose with about as much enthusiasm as a prisoner destined for the guillotine! The alarm was still on ‘snooze’ and would add to my ‘already stressed life’, because I was now in the bath...

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Small addition for a big subject!

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #251

It was my second day at this new school, that had the added stress of requiring the school bus to transport the pupil's, in my area, to the main bus depot near our secondary school, where I had just completed my ‘early years’ at my villages Primary School, and I didn’t know one single person here and nor did anybody’s face look familiar! I stood alone in a playground, which was probably unfamiliar with the first four letters of this word and it was really a concrete meeting area for the pupils that just wanted to gossip and it ha...

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Finding ‘yourself’!

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #247

’One minute I was okay’, but five minutes later I would be trying to stay alive!A very sudden and unexpected brain haemorrhage very nearly ended my ‘relatively young’ life! After surviving, and completing 10 1/2 months in hospital, I required many therapies to try to restore ‘some normality’! This was a challenge and I, instead of ‘looking at it’ negatively, decided to attempt a reasonable recovery with humour, instead of ‘doom and gloom’! I was 24 years of age when I suffered this brain haemorrhage, caused by high blood pressure that rupt...

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“Up…… ‘then down”!

Andrew Venn

‘UP……….then DOWN’ “Get out of the way, I’m going to throw it”! I knew from whom this voice came, despite the words sounding unusually strained and ‘slightly distorted’ with both desperation and urgency, but I still had to quickly turn and look to clarify that my thoughts were correct, and they were from my elder brother and the object, that he was unconvincingly holding high above his head, was a large and obviously heavy large rock and he was, apparently, going to ‘throw it in the stream’! The big rock previously lay discarded, amongs...

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A vocal frustration.

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #238

“I can’t say it”……….. “no, I really can’t say the word ‘it’, nor any other words”! A stroke ‘struck me down’, very unexpectedly and very inconveniently at the young age of 24 years, and on a day that was supposed to end with big celebrations, because it was New Year’s Eve! So, instead of my Fiancée and I celebrating being in our very first home together, I started New Year’s Eve off in a collapsed semi-conscious heap on the bathroom floor, and to be precise the unfortunate collapse was on the ‘pedestal mat’- ‘the mat around the toilet pan’! ...

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‘IN SICKNESS AND IN “IN EXISTENT ILL” HEALTH’!

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #237

‘IN SICKNESS AND IN “an existent” ILL HEALTH’!Something is in the air and it’s got an annoying sound,It’s from those helium balloons that are blowing ‘all around’,There are 4 shiny letters and ‘with an E, a V, an L and an O,and they’re flapping in the wind with their annoying glow; I know I’ll hear this noise all day and it’ll ‘drive me mad’- “Please somebody buy those ‘bloody things’ to make me really glad”!But nobody came near, the wind grew stronger, ‘as if’, there was an evil curse, because those balloons were ‘flapping’ f...

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Going back for ‘a’ good!

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #236

Going back for ‘a’ good! There was a purpose for all of the research and the dedication required towards the construction of a mechanical machine and transportation unit, that would be capable to reverse time and decrease the age of a living person seated within this structure, and this personal purpose was to avoid an incident that would dramatically and drastically affect both my younger years and a ne...

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That’s Life

Andrew Venn

Submitted to Contest #234

‘That’s Life’! ‘One minute’ life and everything and everyone that I knew in this World seemed alright and I briefly and naively thought that I could relax enough to say “at last, I think I’ve got ‘this life’ ‘figured out’ and I’ll continue with what I am doing because this formula seems to be the right one! My life ...

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The man with no voice!

Andrew Venn

“Speak now” said the throat specialist as he opened my mouth wide and examined the back of my throat with his cold and slim torch as though he was a mechanic examining an engine! ’I would speak now’ I thought ‘but I’ve got this great-big hand in my mouth that’s presently attached to a cold and slim torch’! I said a few words(“or at least I thought that I did”) but the throat specialist just shook his head and for me that was both personally devastating and demoralising because I had failed ‘yet again’ to allow the luxury of having food, glor...

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Author bio

“I like to write, I am aware though that I make a few mistakes, and sometimes I rush my work, and I don’t make sense, AND the reason for that is because of the damage I suffered to my brain ‘way back’ in 1993, when I was 24 years old!
I wasn’t expected to survive, or live beyond my early forties, but I have recently enjoyed my 57th birthday!
I had to learn again how to read and write, but seeing my mistakes frustrates me so much that I feel embarrassed sometimes!
Writing is a good way for me to keep my brain active, and previously being both a graphic designer, and then a goldsmith and jewellery designer & maker are jobs that I can’t do successfully anymore, and my writing isn’t doing much better!
“So, please can I have some more feedback from fellow writers, with your thoughts, suggestions (“and please don’t reply with “give up mate”!) that could help me improve my writing?
Thank you, and take care, yours faithfully Andrew.