Ben ONeill

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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“Sing for Me” by Ben ONeill

Submitted to Contest #143

Torn stood alone on the crowded deck. The humans around him were afraid. Terrified, in fact. He could smell it, a sickly-sweet perfume hanging over the entire fleet, filling his sensitive nostrils almost to bursting. Yet, even so, he could not begrudge the men their fear. Not in this. It was right they be afraid. Fitting. They sailed to make war upon a legend, after all. Soris the Unassailable, the Singing City. The first and last stronghold of the First Lords itself. They sailed to wake the wrath of the Sleeping God. For anything sane...

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“The Man of Flesh and Bone” by Ben ONeill

Submitted to Contest #120

The old man sat in the parlor in his favorite chair with a good book across his lap but he had given up on reading many hours before. The room was large and warm and the night was calm and cool but the only sound was the crackle of the low fire and the house was much too quiet. He could have turned on the noise of the radio to ease the loneliness and most nights he would have but tonight it felt wrong, like a betrayal. Instead he stared into the flicker of the fireplace and let himself dwell on the memories, the ones that were always just ...

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