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Andrew Wheeler

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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At Center Stage

Submitted to Contest #140

Come on, just shake it off. Shake it off. I can hear a loud clanking somewhere in the distance just as a line of overhead spotlights come to life, illuminating the entire stage around me. Suddenly the room feels as though the temperature has increased to an uncomfortable degree, and my heart sinks as I stare into the blinding suns above and realize there would be no hiding from my audience. Based on the terrified expressions painting the faces of my fellow bandmates patrolling the stage around me, I’m far from alone in this realization. Do...

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Ex-Requited

Submitted to Contest #140

“Don’t even fucking think about sending that.” I thought you were happy…I’m sorry. It was only the start of a long paragraph of text. I sat mesmerized by the cursor popping in and out on the screen in an endless rhythm, reading over the words I had spent the past hour constructing. I had never intended it to come out this long, but rambling was hardly something new in our conversations together. “Peter!” My eyes snapped back to the present as I looked up to see my annoyed friend ever-so-slightly breaching my comfort zone in a desperate effor...

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At the Crossroads

Submitted to Contest #51

Trigger warning: depictions of suicide It was a tired day that had long overstayed its welcome, and the sun began to wane on the horizon. The glare of the dying sunbeams struck across the metal before him as they clung to the final vestiges of day, shining into his glasses and causing him to wince. Reflecting deeply on himself out on those train tracks, Andrew had momentarily lost sense of his surroundings. It was silly, what they told him about his older brother. Jeremy was always such a charismatic man, much like himself. Nobody cou...

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Star Shooting

Submitted to Contest #51

“It looks amazing, doesn’t it?” The grass crinkled beneath the two of them as Emma rolled over to face her boyfriend. They had themselves set up on a vast field of plant life lit only by the light of the full moon. Luckily, the two of them found themselves completely alone, giving them the opportunity to gaze upon the stars without distraction. “It actually kind of does. I can...

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