Brutus Clement

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2024

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“A Very Mortal Christmas” by Brutus Clement

Submitted to Contest #283

A Very Mortal Christmas   â€śI can’t feel my legs” I can hear the panic in his voice.    â€śWhat do you want me to do?”    â€śRub them. Do it as hard as you can.”      So, I pull the hospital blanket back exposing his white and now wasted legs while starting to rub them. They feel unnaturally cold. I can tell he’s not feeling it and rub harder. This isn’t like him, my father had always been a man with a calm, balanced disposition and I can’t remember him ever bein...

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“Rachael's Tower” by Brutus Clement

Submitted to Contest #282

Rachael’s Tower      It’s hard to imagine that we were all so young once, and how the world stretched out before us with seemingly endless possibilities. My friends and I managed to rent an old house in the now famous wine destination town of Napa, California in the early 1970’s. The town wasn’t as famous then as it is now.     The house was huge and out of place in the poor neighborhood of small closely packed dwellings. Two forty-foot date palm trees perfectly framed the front of the house as w...

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Author bio

I am a professor of history at a local community college who fell in love with writing while working on my Master's Thesis on Richard III of England. Since then I have written 3 books and several short stories and hope to learn how to improve my witting on this site