Caitlin Ball

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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“The Box” by Caitlin Ball

               The box was the next best thing in arcade history. Full immersion into any game as if the person is actually there. I’d worked on it for years, building it in the bowels of Mecha where I planned to open it up to the public. Most virtual games used masks to create realistic effects, but mine used projection-based light and carefully timed piston reactions built into the floor, painstakingly lined with sensors. The air compression techniques I used would ...

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“Gretta's Window” by Caitlin Ball

Submitted to Contest #97

     Gretta Holland was sixty-three years old when the pandemic hit. The world crisis struck South Korea in February of that year, well before it hit the states. Gretta’s grandson was working as an English teacher there. He had begged Gretta to get an app he could call her on for cheap, but Gretta didn’t like computers for anything more than her card games, and even that she preferred to use real cards for.          When Ed made the international call, his voice was tight...

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