Cedric Busteed

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023

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“Lost” by Cedric Busteed

Submitted to Contest #221

“Don’t eat that.” Ashley jumped away as the cold words slithered up her arm and into her ears. She darted her head around to find the source of the voice, to no avail. It took a few moments before she realized that she didn’t remember hearing the words. No, she felt them like a chilling breeze slipping into her mind. She stepped away from the bright mushroom, perched tantalizingly on a rotten tree stump. Ashley had learned about ghosts, much in the same way she’d learned about ‘stop, drop, and roll’, quicksand, and how to spot a poisonous sn...

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“Xenoarcheology” by Cedric Busteed

Submitted to Contest #210

When one travels across the stars, it is inevitable that you find the ruins of those who failed to pass the great filter. Perhaps they exist in some tangential fashion, evolving away from the rigors and responsibilities that come with sapience. There are even some instances where civilizations do so willingly through ritual suicide, systemic degradation, or genetic alteration. But when you see an eroded structure on a planet with no sapient life, it is more likely that the species who made it are long dead, having succumbed under the weig...

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“Silver Bullet” by Cedric Busteed

Submitted to Contest #204

Chanam could feel Luna’s gaze on him as he loaded the rifle. The girl was curious, which was a given considering she’d fallen out of time. And as her closest living descendent, Chanam had a responsibility to her. He carefully calibrated the scope on his rifle. Naturally, she thought he was fully occupied, but the biological and synthetic modifications he’d undergone in his youth gave him more than just quicker reflexes. One stream of consciousness calculated various atmospheric conditions, another watched her through one of the OAD’s many...

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