Ben Ebert

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2024

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“The silence of angels. ” by Ben Ebert

Submitted to Contest #259

The sunlight failed to break through the thick grey clouds that rested over the town and threatened to start thundering against the gloomy molding wood and brown mud of the town of Augthorpe. The town had a ripe stench of pigshit that no one seemed to notice after a week or two. Twelve houses, a couple of kennels for livestock, and a single pub for passing travelers, not that Augthorpe got many visitors these days. Not since they built the church, triple the size of the other buildings, and the only one to be built of stone and lined with fi...

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“Sanctuary ” by Ben Ebert

Submitted to Contest #250

“Captain Charles Vane will be victorious!” The boy cheered as he held up a large toy ship finely made from wood. His Father looked to him, and frowned, as they played joyously in the boy's room. A large King-size bed, fine linen sheets, filled with wooden horses and dolls made from cotton. Some moonlight shone from a large balcony that opened to a beach of water that met with the chaotic sea. “Charles Vane is a brute Edward, you know this.” His Father told him. Edward was taken a little back. “He travels the sea, he wins battles.” Edward ret...

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“Hoarders. ” by Ben Ebert

Submitted to Contest #247

Flashing red lights and a powerful echoing siren around the entire ship. Blood ran along their arm and down to their fingertips, and they looked at me with such hate. “ Are you weak?” “Absolutely, I am weak…” -Before. They looked at me for answers from their different control chairs. The vessel floated rather silently through space. The five of us have spent every day for the last eleven months together. sent on a mission to collect resources from around every corner of the universe. Eleven months reaping food, metal, water, and every minera...

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