Bernardus Bernard

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Zigeunerweisen” by Bernardus Bernard

Submitted to Contest #118

When my bow slashes the keynote of the piece, the last autumn leaf dislocates itself from the mystifying and lonely branch as it waves a stern goodbye. The sky is blue, the colour palette sap green with cinnamon brown. I saw the autumn leaf departs in my peripheral vision, or rather, did I feel it? Either way, I was too fixated on the strings scraping away at my skin. Daydreams of awe at these sheep guts and their talents at blossoming such somnambulist songs. The winter wind blows ever so close, hot and cold at the same time. In this danc...

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“The A(de)scent to Atlantis” by Bernardus Bernard

Submitted to Contest #108

At first, I didn't find its gargantuan silhouette mesmerizing. It was a tall drink I didn't need more of on account of my already loose grip of reality, tyrannized by a black shade of stupor. But then the kindled outline yodels an alluring number. It seeps into my arteries, commanding my fins towards the open gate as it ushers me in. I never expected the myth to be real. The depth harbors behind its hypnotic black a marine city where penetrating sun-rays dare not linger. Many books and scriptures and lores and documentaries f...

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