Bob Faszczewski

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

Stories (126)

126 Stories

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“Busting Down the Barriers” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #277

Busting Down the Barriers Fred Bersentzen refused to allow a roadblock planted in front of him in his youth to stand in the way of his destiny. In fact, he decided to use the constant fight to reach beyond that which held him back to hit the bullseye on his target to success, happiness and fulfillment. &nbs...

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“New Jersey's Deadly Brew” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #274

New Jersey’s Deadly Brew #ReedsyOctoberFor nearly 360 years the area of my birth and early upbringing, Elizabethport, New Jersey, has given its residents plenty of fodder to produce tales of the strange and macabre. Much of its eerie history has evolved from its location along...

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“Among the Cornstalks” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #273

#ReedsySecretsAmong the Cornstalks Ed Josephson wrapped his scarf tightly around his neck as he fought back the 35-mile-per-hour winds and driving snow while trying to navigate his way along Seahawk Lane. As he wound his way past the cornfield across from Berlin, Maryland’s Stephen Decatur High ...

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“Bloodbath at the Beach” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #272

Ready for another typical Monday after a normal resort town weekend, Ocean City, Maryland chambermaid Rosa Gonzalez slowly unlocked the door of the luxury condominium unit and wheeled her equipment cart into the room. She had expected to make quick work of it–a minor dusting, picking up a few dozen discarded paper cups and booze bottles and a once-over with a vacuum. To her horror, she found pools of red bl...

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“Remote Control Reality” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #269

John pressed his microphone button and said “evening news” into his television’s remote, expecting to get connected to a report on the latest bloody news and casualty reports from the war in the Middle East. As he looked on in amazement, the walls in his apartment opened up and he found himself transported into a recently bombed-out section of Beirut. After shaking himself out of a state of shock, he ran for what remained of a nearby building to shelter him from the second wave...

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“Evil in Retreat” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #268

Jordan Smith had worked his way up in the aeronautics industry, becoming CEO of Wingcraft Innovations at only 47 years old in only seven years. The climb up the corporate ladder from line mechanic to the top spot had brought him more success than a kid from the ghettos of Newark, NJ would ever have expected a few decades before. He loved the social connections, the perks of his office and, of course, the many previously-clos...

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“Shadowing the Truth” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #267

During the middle of June, the first month of meteorological summer in Maryland, temperatures normally range in the low to high 80s. Normalcy could, in no way, describe my visit to Pocomoke State Park the year I decided to carry out my investigation of the murder of my Aunt Bernice. Sure, sweat had poured over every inch of my body as I began my journey. Then, my curiosity peaked as ...

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“Not Cleared for Takeoff” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #265

Jackson Tillman anxiously waited for the snakelike line to slither up to the airport security desk so he could start his journey to the Chicago sales meeting for which he had made preparations for the last week. He couldn’t wait to get seated on his flight so he could take out his laptop and finalize the figures on what could become the most profitable contract of his career. While software sales had softened for his other colleagues due to the continuing inflation, someh...

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“Smashing Through the Roadblocks” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #261

By confronting a personal health challenge I have broken down roadblocks and made my life far more interesting and fulfilling than I could ever have imagined. I am a 30-year veteran of the often imploding weekly newspaper industry in New Jersey and a retiree finding new excitement along an alternate route in fiction, non-fiction and science fiction authorship. The reason for my relative success stems from something that many would consid...

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“The Last Turnover” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #260

After spending my high school gridiron career on the bench watching spoiled rich kids get all the glory I made up my mind to burst across the goal line of life and even the score with those who had blocked me for so long I didn’t realize that running in for that touchdown would run out the clock on my journey. My teen y...

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“Shutterbug Shutdown” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #259

On a boring Saturday morning on the outskirts of my home turf in Berlin, Md. I took a hike along a deserted road next to one of the many cornfields in the area. A large chicken-raising operation long ago had dominated the community for many years, but now only abandoned grow-out houses dotted the landscape. This seemed like the ideal place to search for historical treasures that might help me discover a forgotten link to our town’s past that could provide the ...

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“Tale of the Horse Rescuer” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #257

A nightmare took over the mind of Harold Thumperton on September 15, 1818 and caused him to toss and turn all night in a restless sweat. His dream recalled in much too vivid detail the tumultuous sail across the Atlantic that had brought him from England five years before to seek his fortune as a wheat farmer in the rich fields of Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore. Over the course of the eight-week journey the ship carrying Harold and his family had run into seas so ro...

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“Returning the Volley” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #256

As soon as the match began, Irina Ubetekov came rushing toward the net at Wimbledon, returning each serve with more power than she had put behind the thousands she had made during her entire 10-year career. This tournament meant much more. It would put the final jewel in the crown on her climb up the summit of the tennis world, and she wanted to leave that world with a flourish on her record, avoiding the dreaded “40-Love” at all costs. For she had made u...

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“Smashing Down the Barriers to Greatness” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #255

The young man opens the microwave door and, once again, spills the hot drink, barely avoiding scalding himself. He realizes that, far too often, he has accepted incidents such as this as a normal part of daily life. They have left him stuck in first gear and too readily accepting the derision and mockery of those who either don’t understand his life or consider themselves exempt from human failure. Those not condemned to suffer with the disorder with the relatively ...

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“Tiptoeing” by Bob Faszczewski

Submitted to Contest #254

For months the neighbor gossip mills operated at full tilt about the affair, or lack therof, between the ruggedly handsome Jason Hughes and the beautiful and sexy Karen Tollmyer. Of course, the pair kept throwing logs on the rumor fire when, for four weeks running, the deep, throaty sound of the young stud’s eight-cylinder Mustang pierced the peaceful ‘round midnight air of usually quiet Harpersville. ...

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Author bio

Bob Faszczewski is a curious writer who loves exploring different themes and motifs. He has produced two recently-published collections of fiction-science fiction stories about travel across the timeline, "Taming the Timeline" (available for sale on saltwatermedia.com) and "Locking Arms with Giants (available for sale through Amazon Kindle and Amazon.com.). Both also are available for sale at Greyhound Bookstore in Berlin, Md. Bob has published the following short stories in magazines in a number of genres: ."Bloodstains on the Ledger"--Ink and the Sword.com . "Tragedy Near the Corpse Light--or Because of It"--Mystery Tribune.com . "Cadaver in the Forest"--Adelaide Literary Magazine . "Heard It Through the Grapevine"--Flash Fiction.com . "Resetting the Clock"--Academy of the Heart and Mind . "The Turkonians Are Coming"--CleverMag.com.