Chaim Holtjer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2024

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“Interview with the Writer” by Chaim Holtjer

Submitted to Contest #266

My palms were sweaty, as they always were right before any public appearance. My heart pounded in my chest and I felt a stir in my gut that was all too familiar. A wave of almost unbearable uncertainty washed over me as I tried to push my negative thoughts away. I wasn’t any good at all, my writing sucked worse than that of the average social media user, and I was nothing but a scam and a fraud. As the audience applauded on the other side of the dark curtains, I took a deep breath and remembered the soft words of encouragement from my therap...

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“There is peace in darkness” by Chaim Holtjer

Submitted to Contest #265

The world was black, but that was alright, for there was peace in darkness. I sat on my old chair and listened to the wind howling outside. The branches of a long dead tree rattled against the shutters, which groaned on their rusted hinges. But it wasn’t the sounds I could hear that worried me, it was the one sound that wasn’t there. My stomach burned in my gut as I hadn’t eaten anything solid in more days than I cared to count, and now it wrung itself into all kinds of twists and turns as I fought to come to terms with the unbearable. I kep...

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