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Bob Faszczewski

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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Much More Than Floods

Submitted to Contest #112

                                             Much More Than Floods      The cold, dark dreariness of the skies above Dover matched Devon Johnston’s mood this day. In fact, it had reflected his mood and the daily routines of both he and most of his neighbors throughout Devon’s life, but his mood...

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Road Trip From Hell

Submitted to Contest #110

            As I drove cautiously along a deserted road in the Virginia-North Carolina countryside, the passing scenery reminded me of the forest scene from "Deliverance." To add to the negative atmosphere, my least favorite Realtor office colleague sat next to me. The stillness on this Saturday night made me feel like a solo mortician closing up shop after the last mourner following the wake of the least popular crotchety old man in the neighborhood.  My fellow Realtor, Jill M...

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Workday Nightmare--Lifetime Dream

Submitted to Contest #109

           During John Wilkenski’s youth in Elizabeth, New Jersey he had played out his Fountain of Youth act well--so well, in fact, that none of his neighbors ever guessed that the age he portrayed in his daily life quite skillfully disguised his actual, and much older, chronological self. What they also didn’t realize was his “staged act”  would come in handy in the future in a way neither he nor they had ever imagined.           ...

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Home Renovation TV on Steroids

Submitted to Contest #108

                         Home Renovation TV on Steroids1          I stood apprehensively, yet assuredly, tightly gripping the can of gasoline in my garage. Then I struck a match, ready to destroy the dwelling that, of late, had brought so much mental--and potentially, fiscal--destruction to the lives of myself and my wife.         ...

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Eulogy for a Mystery Man

Submitted to Contest #107

Fred Harris lit up the world of everyone whose lives he touched, including mine and all the members of my family. His many readers and fans religiously read his Daily Post columns on local government and finance, and considered them as kind of unofficial operations manuals for the conduct of most municipal governments in suburban Northern and Central New Jersey and enabled reporters, including me, to help area residents turn back years of gross overtaxation or lack of sufficient services and infrastructure. Fred also co-founded the East Some...

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Dopplegangers at the OK Corral

Submitted to Contest #106

     A good half-dozen years before the famous Shootout at the OK Corral between the Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday and the Claiborne-Clanton Gang in Tombstone, Az., a tale about a far more unusual gunfight in the  nearby small town of Tumble Creek took root in local legend.         As the story made its way around the Arizona territory, Tumble Creek and its surrounding towns had become “depositories” for the riches accumulated by many who had found ways to profit handsomely ...

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Not Seeing Is Believing

Submitted to Contest #105

                              Not Seeing Is Believing      Jarod had struggled academically his entire life. Now, finally, he saw himself on the verge of a real future. High school graduation in his rearview mirror and a promising career in IT only awaited his completion of the three-month course--starting the following week.      He had scour...

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Resetting the Clock

Submitted to Contest #104

                                               Resetting the Clock                                          &nbs...

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Not So Special Blue Plate Special

Submitted to Contest #103

NOT SO SPECIAL BLUE PLATE SPECIAL “Crash!!” The sound of all the plates on the breakfast table tumbling to the floor followed by a bloodcurdling scream. The scream emanating more from shock than fear, came from Carey Stupolski, a guest in the home of her uncle, Stan Fizurski, and his family because she had recently witnessed a few potentially dangerous confrontations between her parents in her own home. “The craziest thing,” Carol said, “I sat eating a plate of Uncle Stan’s delicious pancakes and reached for a glass of o...

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Cabin in the Wilderness of My Mind

Submitted to Contest #102

TW: attempted suicide          My asinine, dead end job really has left me on the edge of depression lately. Add to this catching my scumbag boss in the sack with my brainless Barbie of a wife and the fact that my creditors seem ready to foreclose on the precious few possessions I haven’t hocked to satisfy my 15-year addiction to the trotters and you’ll see why I think the end of the road looms for my worthless existence.      I’ve made up my mind to do it and that’s why I have chos...

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Guess Who Came to Breakfast?

Submitted to Contest #100

Guess Who Came to Breakfast?     “Crash!” The sound of all the plates and glasses on the breakfast table tumbling to the floor followed by a bloodcurdling scream as cousin, Carey Stupolski, also saw herself hurled off her chair in our dining room and saw herself covered with pancake syrup.     The scream emanated more from the shock of our breakfast guest than from fear. Carey had been living and dining with us, the Fizurskis, because her mother Marcia, my mother's sister, needed her temporarily remo...

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Too Hot to Handle

            Bobby Stanford, like all his fellow freshmen at Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin, MD, could hardly wait until June 13, 2019, when he would be released from the drudgery of schoolwork and head for the beach and noon-to-dusk fun in the sun and on the waves of Ocean City. The day after “serving his sentence” in the classroom he and his buddies hopped into the car driven by Joey Jasper, the newly-minted 17-year-old driver and automatic “leader of the pack,” and took of...

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The Golden Opportunity

Submitted to Contest #98

                                     The Golden Opportunity                The sunburn cases began to mount up as the year 2300 drew to a close. Not just first degree burns, but second and third-degree burns--from only a half-hour exposure, in the middle of November.   &nbsp...

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A Window, a Curtain or a Highway to Nowhere?

Submitted to Contest #97

                             A Window, a Curtain or a Highway to Nowhere?        Night falls like a dark curtain across the rear window of the bungalow that faces onto our deck. On the surface, the color of the night seems to shield all that happens across the silent lake beyond from discovery by any observing it.       However, at f...

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Resetting the Clock

Submitted to Contest #96

Resetting the Clock This damned inventory count took two entire business weeks—would you believe it? Two whole weeks. I think I am totally surrounded by incompetent fools. I have a good mind to fire them all and start over from scratch. After extracting myself from this den of stupidity I have to claw my way through this insane LA freeway traffic, after stopping at my favorite bar for a quick one to drown out the day of course. Then I exit into my suburban neighbo...

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