Brian Perez

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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“On the Head of a Pin” by Brian Perez

Submitted to Contest #174

“A needless war in Ukraine, the Chinese people protesting, crypto is crap, the red wave that never came, insurrections and impeachments, music isn’t music anymore. No one is courteous. No one cares about anyone but themselves. What the hell is happening?” The woman with the dark skin and bunned-up hair, whose skin glistened in the reflection of the colossal LCD monitors above Times Square, didn’t look at her interlocutor, she just grimaced in the glow, staring at the sky, as she proclaimed, “Everything is changing. Wh...

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“To Do One's Duty” by Brian Perez

Submitted to Contest #68

It had been twenty-four years since she'd last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. Untouched and untrammeled by the vicissitudes of time. She stared disbelievingly at the heliotropes and thaumaturgic flywheels of the conveyance. She went into the captain's quarters and found the maps, the logbook, even the captain's heavy drome-hide leather coat was still hanging on the wooden wall peg. The windows were just as clean as she remembered. She moved to the bowsprit and saw the figurehead of ...

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