Charles Cook

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“If You Will” by Charles Cook

My child! Oh, what we will do, what we will build! I have so much to show you but in time. Today we walk. So very new and unaware you are, yet your eyes swim in worlds of wonder. You will never search for light, you also will not take cover from it in the shade. Light will be your sword against all unclean and fearful. Tomorrow... you will run. You will fall. You will cry. You will sing. More importantly than all of these you will love. "My child, why do you run from me? Don't you know I can see you?" Young as my son is, fifteen is plenty ol...

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“Overlapse” by Charles Cook

Submitted to Contest #196

Billboards litter even the backroads. If a bird grows weary of flight he rests upon its perch. An elephant ready for a cool patch of shaded grass to lie upon need only drudge toward the enduring vehicular symphony. We all thought we could win the war for our attention by simply giving up cell phones and social media accounts, in exchange for good ole fashion paper letters by mail. We couldn't have been more wrong. Advertising campaigns seemed to get stronger in spite of our rebellion. The only way to get around this mirage of shallow allure ...

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“Two Tickets” by Charles Cook

Submitted to Contest #83

"Honey, we really can't pass up a deal like this. We never get us time anymore, and this AMAZING-looking room is so cheap it might as well be free! Please... we gotta do this. And hey, we both have P.T.O. to spend before it zeros out." This was said by a normally happily, yet suddenly a desperately bored man who'd realized he needed spice. In the very next moment for said man, things became very out of the blue with his love life. Crying softly, his wife blurted with a slight giggle, "I-heh, um uh, was planning to break up with you in ...

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