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Brian Rains

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

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Something Strange Beneath the Floorboards

Submitted to Contest #307

Oliver Barrett considered himself painfully ordinary. At thirty-four, he lived alone in a small apartment above the hardware store he managed in a sleepy, gray town called Merton’s Hollow. His days were predictable, marked by the creak of the shop’s old doorbell and the hum of the fluorescent lights. He liked it that way—nothing strange, nothing unexpected. He had never broken a bone, never traveled farther than a few towns over, and had never loved anyone the way novels insisted he should. He kept his hair neat, his receipts organized in sh...

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Balance Warriors of The Feather Realm

Screams echoed for miles as the black-feathered soldiers—ferocious Ayam Cemani fowls—slaughtered the innocent with a cruel devotion. These ominous warriors, recruited just two weeks ago by the dark witch empress Arabella, known across the realm as the Beak of a Thousand Adamant Wails, ravaged a peaceful farming village without mercy. Torches in clawed hands, they set the village ablaze until not a single soul remained. Smoke rose thick into the night as the black feather soldiers, arrogant and silent, marched alongside their mistress toward ...

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The Dominant Raccoon and The Tomato Family Nightmare.

*The Dominant Raccoon.*In a forest, way out in the middle of nowhere, a raccoon lived with his other furry friends. On every passing day since the raccoons birth he would play and learn with the other creatures of the forest. They all grew up together and bonded a unique friendship with each other as they grew older.Despite the friendship held between these forest creatures, most of the raccoons friends despised dominant raccoon. The raccoon would boast and bully all of his friends because he was stronger and smarter. He would torture and te...

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A Perfect Hypocrisy Quandary

The room seemed frozen and only the curtains swayed gently as the wind blew a soft breeze through the half opened window. The happy and exited atmosphere surrounding inside the front room of this quant little brick home veered into abashed feelings.The days time had been late afternoon and the evening was pushing forward.A group of three young adults sat around a coffee table gawking at each other in awkward silence, each clutching a King James version of the Holly Bible.The Saturday bible study, arranged on a whim by the three erratic churc...

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Special Ingredient Must be Butter.

Submitted to Contest #162

They stood around, competing with ideas, by the kitchen stove and arguing about what would be the best grilled cheese in the world and who could make one. Eventually, both Sara Miller and Josh Brewer decided a friendly cookout competition would solve this 'grilled cheese' dilima. After grabbing frying pans and placing them on the stove, they dashed to the refrigerator excited about this cookout in unison."Hey! I got here first." Sara blurted out. She got pushed back and she raised her hands, followed by rolling her eyes in annoyance.Josh sna...

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Not Another Picture.

Submitted to Contest #144

For many years her mother complained about not having any pictures, of her radiant face as she calls it, to hang on the front room walls. After Arabella turned fourteen she just down right refused to take any photos, or be put in family videos.Arabella had always ran from her father with a camcorder, when he came shooting for family memories. She would crouch and hide when someone called out for family group pictures.Arabella had a condition that made her stomach squirm when even the word photograph was mentioned. Over the years though, she ...

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A Journey that Conceived a Relinquish.

 A small town diner is not a place I usually eat at, but I had been hungry one hundred miles ago. The stale chips and snack cakes, I carelessly thrown and left on my dashboard most of the trip, had not been a sufficient diet and was making my stomach ache. I needed something more fresh and cooked.Even though this little diner had a nutritious upgrade from my road trip snacks, to me the diner would still be a restaurant with impolite servers and dirty bathrooms. Ignoring where I was at, I sat in my seat, located by the window, ate my lun...

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The love-Hate Ambivalence.

Submitted to Contest #108

Heaven and earth has seen many love and hate stories venture through time, father time himself could not keep records of. With the buzz of romance a sudden heartbreak will bring a void to one’s heart and leave it an empty space.Filling that heart, now an abyss, is all but an act of letting someone reach out and touch your center soul, well mostly. Sometimes, we may never fill that void, or it takes sailing bravely through known and unknown obstacles. Just so happens I know two God’s whom had a ambivalence problem that took years for the...

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Elemental Crimson Continent, First Chronicle.

Submitted to Contest #108

Beyond the India ocean, Ryu Hubuku, Stiery Chinn, and a few other crew members sailed towards an unknown continent. Upon the hopes of treasure and adventurous discovery they soon would find more in store on this unknown continent.Lost through time, this continent mysteriously rose up from the depths of the southern Indian ocean during the Stone age, around 1156 BCE.The mysterious continent unknowingly did not stay long and for a brief time some brave souls luckily got to explore and discover wonder on the continent.After a time, and with no ...

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Mind Twist Possession

Submitted to Contest #103

Most demonic possessions usually occur with bad people and secretly unexpectedly. The agenda of demonic forces are to torture, oppress, and block the holy purpose from all human beings. This time however, and which has never happened before from anything or to anyone in the history of man, a possession transpired to a normal male and from a non demonic force.His life was fine and normal, so he thought, until the man turned 40. The man, who grew up in a Christian family, was saved at one time but now has lost his way. He was short and fairly ...

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Triangle Curse of Fire

Submitted to Contest #97

" No, I said your house almost burned up. I never claimed it actually did." Explained a grumpy, over weight, white bearded man. A middle aged woman and a heavy set bearded man were speeding through a suburban neighborhood, in a black dodge charger, hurrying to reach the middle aged woman's home. " George, I swear, if anything is damaged. I will...grrr, I will knock your lights out." Proclaimed the middle aged woman, clinching the steering wheel tighter. " I promise you Bertha, nothing got destroyed. Just a few curtains were cinged and...

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The Day, Night Dreamer.

Submitted to Contest #97

The feeling you get when your alone and thinking to yourself while your by yourself. Starring out his window, like he always done so many times, Doug Travel was in deep thought. Doug was thinking of scenarios that he put himself in, those day dream imaginations, though they most likely would never happen. It was one in the morning and Doug could not sleep. Doug always thought of himself as someone special and somehow important. Therefore, he would imagine he was doing those special and important things, and being that special and important...

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Glass Doors

Submitted to Contest #95

She was thinking hard on which door to venture into as Claire Home's smirked and eyed the two glass doors. Her father once told her by making a choice you have to research to make the right one. Though, how that helped Claire here was beyond her. There simply was nothing to research. There were only two glass doors to look at." Make the right choice," Claire said to herself, staring at the glass doors.Claire Home's was standing in a empty room inside the Red Wizard tower. Claire's parents sent her here, to Red Wizard tower, at a very early a...

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