Chandler Wilson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2022

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“Eight-Ball Oracle” by Chandler Wilson

[Adult Content] “I can see it now.” said Todd Malone, an athletic, 44-year-old. His eyebrows low, nostrils flaring. “You fucking bastard, admit you did it!” He yelled with spittle flying from the corners of his mouth. His brow furrowed with sweaty creases. The smell of alcohol pungent on his breath. He held a gun in his trembling hand.In the lobby of the Malone Perkins law firm, in downtown Houston, at nearly midnight. Brian Perkins, eyes wide open, with his forehead wrinkled, a handsome, but selfish 45-year-old, dropped to his kne...

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“You're Never Really Gone” by Chandler Wilson

[Adult Content] On a hot muggy night in Gunter, Texas, Dan Meadows, a handsome 36-year-old with a mop of salt and pepper hair and pale blue eyes, woke suddenly. He’d dreamt someone was watching him and his wife having sex earlier. His mind raced from a rush of adrenalin and the hair on his nape stood as he was convinced there was someone else in his house. Another person besides him and his wife of two years, 34-year-old Anne. He reached over to feel for his wife, she wasn’t there. Where the hell is she? he thought.His heart pounde...

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“Hello Spiro” by Chandler Wilson

Lightning flashing, followed by heavy claps of thunder as 12-year-old Elliott Thomas sits in his orphanage dorm staring out a rain streaked window, on a dark stormy Kansas City night in 1999, with tears streaming down his cheeks. The door opens and Sister Mary Theresa flips on the light and steps into the room. “Elliott, there you are? I’ve been looking everywhere for you?” She said in with a slight hint of frustration. “You need to be getting packed. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will be here early tomorrow morning to pick you up.”“I don’t w...

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“Lighthouse Keepers” by Chandler Wilson

“There it was again, did you see it? The light flickered. Someone’s running in front of the beam. There are people up there.” Silas said, pointing toward the Lantern Room of the lighthouse. It was a cool September night on Lake Huron in 1872. Silas Morgan and Noah Lewis, best friends since childhood now in their mid-twenties, are the lighthouse keepers at West Huron Island Light, on the westernmost island of the chain.“Yes, I saw it that time.” Noah said with a yawn standing in his long johns on the stoop of the keeper’s ...

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“The View From Here” by Chandler Wilson

(Contains Adult Content) Meeting his fiancé for a glass a wine after work. Graham Hines, an attractive 32-year-old Audio Video Technician at EA Games, paces in a circle in front of a wine bar in downtown Austin. His phone dings, it’s a TXT message from her. His heart rate increases, he feels a flutter from his stomach up his spine, looking down to see a simple, one-word message, ‘Yes’. His face flushes. Looking up the sidewalk, spotting Julie smiling and practically running toward him. As soon as she reaches him, stopp...

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“Wall of Deception” by Chandler Wilson

Paul McIntyre, a handsome 36-year-old Austin entrepreneur, bats his eyes and slowly awakes to the sound of water rushing through pipes overhead, lying on his side, naked, his hands zip tied, in total darkens, all alone. Where am I, what happened? He thought, his head pounding, barely able to breathe and terribly thirsty. Feebly pulling his hands up, gently removing the duct tape from his mouth. He starts gnawing at the zip tie around his wrists.  Days before, Paul stepped up to the box office window of the Fairmount Theater o...

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“My Friend Charlie” by Chandler Wilson

“Forgive me Father for I have sinned.” Nathan Butler, a handsome sandy haired 26-year-old graduate student at the University of Illinois, begins his confession at St. John’s Center. “Father, I think I’m possessed. I’ve been struggling with this for the past several months. There is a demon that dwells all around me and I think within in me. His name is Charlie.”Nathan, in his apartment, lying in bed staring at the ceiling, glancing again over at his alarm clock, it’s three am, then back at the ceiling. “Five nights in a row without...

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“Hogmanay Fest” by Chandler Wilson

Scotland’s New Year's Eve celebration, Hogmanay, is truly a memorable event, one that always involves much alcohol and even more mischief than any other Scottish celebration throughout the year. Marcus Belton, a healthy, handsome, 31-year-old American, is having the time of his life, in Edinburgh, dancing with beautiful girls, and with the whole crowd, their hands in the air, jumping and singing. The crowd grows wilder, and a thunderous burst of cheering breaks out when men lift their kilts at the stroke of midnight. Every man dre...

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“Delayed Exposure” by Chandler Wilson

Carol Hawkins was at her home in Houston, Texas with her 11-year-old son Todd on a hot, muggy July night in 1991 when someone knocked on the front door around 7 pm. She opened the door to see a person in a bright yellow clown suite wearing a blue curly wig with a lurid smile pained on their face. They were holding out a bouquet of flowers and three red balloons. She smiled and took them, paused to smell the flowers, before looking back at the clown.Nearly 30 years later on a Sunday afternoon in late April 2021, Gabe Cunningham, a h...

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“Naked Hanging Man” by Chandler Wilson

The view from Tom’s one-bedroom apartment in Provo, Utah was less than interesting, but no more so than he was. Tom McAllen, a software developer who has been working from home for almost two years, is beginning to feel the effects of his isolation.“Tom, come away from the window.” Anne snapped.“But, I’m watching it rain, it’s so beautiful.” He said.“Don’t you think you should jump online and get started with work.” Peter said.“You two go outside whenever you want.” H...

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“Look Onward Jake” by Chandler Wilson

Grow up Jake, grow up, don’t act like a sniffling kid, he thought as moonlight cascaded from a row of hopper windows overhead. Jake drew a deep breath with a bead of sweat trickling over his brow. The concrete wall was like a block of ice to his back. In only his boxers and a tee he slid onto the basement floor. He glanced up at the creaking floor joists and heavy footsteps above before turning his focus back to the door at the top of the stairs. Just two days before, he was running to catch the Greenville daily commuter train.“Dan...

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“The Picnic Interrupted By War” by Chandler Wilson

Jonas McClain is a long way from his Arkansas home on a hot July day in Virginia with clammy hands tightly clenching his percussion cap riffle. On his stomach along a steep incline he felt the sun beating though his light grey wool chasseur cap. Beads of sweat trickled from his temples down his cheeks. Jonas’s 19th Birthday was yesterday and no one took notice.With the wheels of destiny already in motion fate will decide who lives and who dies today, July 21st 1861. Jonas is participating in the beginning of a war that w...

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“Forced From The Flock” by Chandler Wilson

Some profanity. Marcus Jaffee knows a secret about what’s going to happen in picturesque rural Smithville Texas. What he doesn’t know is what it means for him. The Lone Star State is home to a wide variety of bird species. In fact, it’s perhaps the most bird-diverse state in the country with over 650 confirmed species.In Smithville the first hint of spring comes with the arrival of the courageous little yellow breasted Chats. They sound as if they...

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“Pink Socks” by Chandler Wilson

“You’ll never know unless you try. C’mon Charlie lets see who can get one the furthest.” Tanner said picking up a flat smooth round rock. He twirled it off of his index finger making it swirl high into the trees. Just as he released it something moved from behind one tree to another.“What was that?” Tanner asked.“What was what?” Charlie responded.

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“Alien Fire” by Chandler Wilson

The stars were unusually bright dancing in an invisible cosmic breeze on a clear moonless November night in rural Southern Illinois. Kevin O’Connell and his brother Logan sat in the front seat of Logan’s Jeep with the motor running watching Kevin’s sofa smolder in the yard. Suddenly two bundles of mysterious blue and yellow flames materialized on it.The day had been especially stressful. Kevin at thirty-four had never married. He lived alone after...

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Author bio

Life’s too short to have regrets. After almost too many years in the high-tech industry, I’m pursuing my passion to write. I hope to someday write something that readers will enjoy. - chandler#4346 "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" -C. S. Lewis