Brownbread Fred

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2022

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“"Family Secrets"” by Brownbread Fred

Submitted to Contest #214

This year your wife's family vacation will be in the Canary Islands. Your father-in-law has just arrived with the airline tickets and other pertinent information. He gives you a brochure for the hotel that you will be staying at, The Rouge. You peruse the brochure, taking note of the spa and bar. He has arranged for a car to take you to the airport, which will bypass security and take you directly to his private jet. You married into the family ten years ago, so these extravagancies are nothing new to you. You thank him, then head to the kit...

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“"Dusk"” by Brownbread Fred

Submitted to Contest #214

My wife and I sat watching the grandkids play on the last day of our vacation as the sun was clocking out for the day. They were swinging from an outcropping into the lake on a rope, blaring music from their boomboxes, laughing as they splashed into the green lake. My wife nudged me with her elbow and motioned for me to look to the left of the splashing, where the sun was about to meet its reflection in the lake's mirror surface. "It's beautiful, don't you think?" she said as she placed her hand on my thigh. I looked at her thin, sharp fa...

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“Order are Orders” by Brownbread Fred

Submitted to Contest #186

“Fuck you, sir.”“What did you say to me, private?!”“Fuck you, sir.”“How dare you speak to an officer…”“Holy shit! The new private just knocked the LT out.”“I ain’t see shit. C’mon Jones, lets beat feet. Besides, there’s Sergeant Moultry’s, let him take care of it.”“What the fuck happened here, private?” “LT, you good? Come on; on your feet, sir.”“Huh? Ye-yea-yeah, I’m fine sergeant.”“Well, private?”“There is nothing to ask him, Moultry, he assaulted me! An enlisted soldier struck a commissioned officer, what else do you need to know?”“I want...

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Author bio

Brownbread Fred is a writer based deep in the Southern United States. He has been formally educated in screenwriting, along with both fiction and nonfiction creative writing. He is also a veteran of the US Army, where he deployed to Afghanistan, Korea, and was a former high-ranking member of the E-4 Mafia.