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Brandon Zarycki

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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Kids Clotes

Brandon Zarycki

Submitted to Contest #230

Sandra Thomas stood behind the front counter and watched the man enter the store. The man Sandra would be forced to guess was probably in his late twenties, maybe early thirties a couple of hours from now. And when really pressed Sandra would say, “Yeah, twenty-eight could be about right.” But at the time this was just another person coming into the store carrying a large cardboard box. ‘Baby clothes’, is actually the only thing Sandra can remember thinking about when seeing this ‘five-foot nine, five-foot ten’ man walking towards her. ‘He w...

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Kids Clothes

Brandon Zarycki

Submitted to Contest #139

Sandra Thomas stood behind the front counter and watched the man enter the store. The man Sandra would be forced to guess was probably in his late twenties, maybe early thirties a couple of hours from now. And when really pressed Sandra would say, “Yeah, twenty-eight could be about right.” But at the time this was just another person coming into the store carrying a large cardboard box. ‘Baby clothes’, is actually the only thing Sandra can remember thinking about when seeing this ‘five-foot nine, five-foot ten’ man walking towards her. ‘He w...

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Sleep

Brandon Zarycki

Submitted to Contest #138

Sleep Nolan Lucas opens his eyes and immediately starts looking around his bedroom. For the past 6 months this has become his normal morning routine. Most people might grab their phone and check their social media or sit up with their eyes still half closed cursing the start of a new day. Nolan no longer has any social media accounts. He had Facebook which he at one point did use pretty regularly. Grabbing his phone from his nightstand and checking to see if anything good was going down in the World of Facebook was how he started his days...

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Darkest Corner

Brandon Zarycki

Submitted to Contest #101

The Darkest Corner By: Brandon Zarycki “Mommy, Mommy!” Her Mother came running into her little girl's bedroom in the middle of the night. “What’s wrong baby girl?” Her Mother asked as she quickly flicked on the bedroom light in one quick movement. Light filled the tiny, pink painted walls and for a second blinded both of their eyes until they adjusted to the sudden burst of light. “I saw a ghost.” The little girl cried as she sat straight up clutching her Frozen inspired blanket. “It was standing over there,” she said, pointing t...

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Family Dinner

Brandon Zarycki

Family Dinner By: Brandon Zarycki Frankie Daniels, was a 23 year old, Columbia University student in New York City. His mother, father and younger brother, Cameron, lived 12,000 miles away in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There was a girl in his Intermediate Fiction Workshop course who asked to borrow a pencil once, but besides her, he didn’t know a single other person in the city. So, as he sat in his bedroom, he couldn’t help but wonder who was talking in his kitchen. The talking had started about 10 minutes ago, but the we...

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