B. Mather

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

Stories (3)

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“I Stare the Audience” by B. Mather

Submitted to Contest #201

I watch her name through a screen, flashing online, away, offline. I scroll through our latest chat log. We chat about the everything in nothingness and the nothingness in everything, sometimes repeating topics if we are short.My wife is aware. Her sour apple scowl serrates my impoverished, serpentine spirit, but she has my heart still. She has benefitted from having my soul - or so I hope - for it once broke her cage of isolation, and my own. The screen may have rebuilt that cage. I do not know.I watch her screen name flash green, on, and m...

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“We Had Names” by B. Mather

Submitted to Contest #132

“It’s just wine,” I lied to Fang as he buried his face into my chest. To this day, I am unsure whether or not Fang truly believed a word I said or if he just nodded because he needed to believe. Either way, he nodded. Suddenly the blood dribbling off the ax-head was no more than liquor running down a drunkard’s beard. Father remained stoic throughout the whole ordeal. “The villagers have no dealings with wolves,” he had tried to explain once. “Those that live out West, our old neighbors even, know that wolves are a threat to lambs.” At first...

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“Farim's Journal” by B. Mather

Submitted to Contest #115

Cracking the pages as he reread them, Farim skimmed over his journal for about the third - no forth or maybe fifth time that day. It was a well worn device of his own creation. Once a smooth and flexible burgundy leather-backed book, it was now creased and sun-bleached to that same terrible tone of a decaying camel's fur. It had developed the texture of the sand that sat at their feet. The white pages had yellowed and even when it was perfectly sealed away and bound it had a musty smell that was so strong it repelled the mosquito and undead ...

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Author bio

Hey, I live in the United States. The Central most part of the country where things go from hilly and beautiful to flat and boring, depending on the direction you travel. I am currently an English teacher at a high school. I am in the graduate program for an MBA. I will eventually work towards another degree, likely related to creative writing as it has always been my driving passion.