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AppleJuicePunch (AJP)

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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Linden Tree

AppleJuicePunch (AJP)

Submitted to Contest #320

Linden Tree When I was young, or to be clear on the verge of passing from younger to young, and the time of dancing neared I felt the old woman keeping a closer eye on me as I played among tree roots, and wended through branches. As a child of the woods, I had often felt the old woman’s notice, a glancing awareness that she was there and curious. But, now as my cycles of age passed the double digits her attention had a weight to it and a seeming focus. I remember asking once why she was there and how long had she been waiting for people t...

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Escape path

AppleJuicePunch (AJP)

Submitted to Contest #316

Numbers Three thousand three hundred and sixty-four applications sent. In a year, that means just a little less than twelve applications a day. Have I been spamming applications…rarely. I have been reading the job boards, doing a deep dive into the company or government agency and customising each. I am stupidly overqualified for several jobs, two Master's, one in science, one MFA and a Bachelor’s that does both. “Then you must be doing something wrong.” I love this blame disguised as guidance. Given...

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A MODEST WALL

AppleJuicePunch (AJP)

Submitted to Contest #302

(For the Lovers of a Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift here is a relevent update for the modern erra…you have been warned.) My dearest friends and compatriots of a true and real America, we have been in a crisis. Our resources, jobs, and even our very existence are taxed beyond what should be allowed. A strong country, we are not without limits. We have carefully structured our wealth so that we can afford to give ten per cent of our populace two million or more dollars to live for a year. Not to be elitist, forty percent of people receive n...

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Double Shot

AppleJuicePunch (AJP)

Submitted to Contest #260

           Try working a life of sin sometimes; it can be damn busy. Still can’t say Wake is loaded with stiffs, like some other jobs. I only have one boss to answer to, and he is rarely around. He has too many different clients to bother me.  As for me, a femme with slim hands serving coffee nine-to-five from a stand smaller than the box, I got my shoes –eh, there could be worse. Trust me, I’ve seen them devils and the damned in their suits, be-robed or otherwis...

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Stone Amnesty

AppleJuicePunch (AJP)

Submitted to Contest #259

Issaquah, a forced hobbling of the native word Squak after the sound that many birds living in the area made on the shoreline of the Sammamish lake. For years real growth and prosperity chose other paths when it came to the sleepy unincorporated town of Issaquah.  The First Nation people who had lived there gradually moved away more by displacement than actual force. The mountainsides grew steadily more diluted over the coming years. Tiger mountain’s stripes faded as coal was removed. Cougar Mountain’s mass of fir be...

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Author bio

There is a theory that we living beings are actually just chaotic layers of thought, fooling ourselves about our state of consciousness. This is foolish, wrongheaded and utterly ridiculous as we are in fact chaotic layers of stories spiralling around fooling ourselves about our state of consciousness. Growing up surrounded by stories, songs and myths shaped how the world appears.
Adam Pierce’s stories frequently jump out of his head and take on a life of their own. He is a community ecosystems specialist. He has a graduate degree in Biology with a focus in Biomimicry and Integrated Bio-science from the University of Akron. Adam served as the University’s connection to the Regional Educator’s Consortium and the Akron City School District, helping to support that same ecosystem of nature-inspired innovation. He has run non-profit initiatives, small businesses, and community planning bio-design charrettes. He earned an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University.