Carman Hall

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Toxic Friendships ” by Carman Hall

Submitted to Contest #76

These jeans are slippery. That sounds weird; I’ll find a better way to say that. One that doesn’t make me sound like an old, creepy guy on Craigslist. It isn‘t really the jeans themselves either; it’s the zipper. I got these at a local thrift shop and they functioned just fine then. Three months later, no, five months later, and the thing just won‘t stay up. That’s what she said... Anyway, I liked them. They were better fitting than the ones I found at “regular“ shop, which those ones would have cost me nearly forty dollars! Forty. Dol...

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“I Won’t Let Go Of You” by Carman Hall

Submitted to Contest #76

“Jack...What are you doing? Out here. With the likes of me? Ha, I’d think everybody back at the camp is probably worried sick about you. Should get back to em; otherwise, they’ll kill me for just lookin at ya.”“Relax, Clayton. They know I’m here.”“What....how did you-““Can I come in?”“You can...”“Not too shabby a place you got here: a fireplace, a kitchen, a bedroom, a living room. The wallpaper could be better, though, and the carpet’s pretty crap. Dead bugs? Come on, man, I know vacuum cleaners haven’t been a thing for a while now but have...

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Author bio

Carman loves books and cats. Books and cats and books and cats and books and cats.