Bill Brooks

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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3 Stories

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“A Far Shore” by Bill Brooks

Submitted to Contest #63

A bitter wind whipped the marram grass and pelted Mother with sand. She closed her eyes and settled more adamantly on her nest. Winter was coming – she smelled it in the air and heard its whisper in the waves. It was nature’s announcement, a solemn promise of death and rebirth.The wind died down. She looked about for danger, then stood and stepped back. Four olive-colored eggs made a rough diamond shape within her shallow nest. Three had myriad cracks, while the fourth was pristine, which should have meant dead, only a bright red circle glow...

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“The Call” by Bill Brooks

Submitted to Contest #57

55-year-old Daniel Blythe, one-time owner and CEO of a Canadian potable water company called Aqua Relief, which he had started with the help of his wife and two sons back on Earth, sat in a yoga position in the center of his transparent isolation pod on the surface of Mars. He pulled his personal Earthlink communicator from the large pocket of his robe and flipped it on. A glowing blue screen appeared in space some ten feet in front of him, nearly touching the wall of his small octagonal enclosure. Roughly fifty inches across and...

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“The Memory Tree” by Bill Brooks

Submitted to Contest #53

It was never easy being married to one of the preeminent science fiction writers of our time, let me tell you. Emmett lived more for the interview and the adoring fan than he ever did for me. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a whining session or a pity party. I knew all this going in. I knew that the world had stolen his heart long before I’d gotten there, and that I would forever be relegated to the back seat of his life. I made my peace with that early on, and he and I learned to love each other in our own unique way. ...

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