Charles Houston

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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“The Head of Goliath” by Charles Houston

Submitted to Contest #269

Karl Krauze would soon escape the familial bonds of his first eighteen years, all spent in his family’s modest house in Graz, Austria. School had been nightmarish at times but now he could start a new life as a university student in Vienna. For as long as he could remember he had doodled, sketched and drawn. He knew he had a good measure of talent which he could hone at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, some 200 kilometers to the northeast. He hoped he’d forget the beatings from a pair of bigger, mean classmates and the occasional beating...

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“Redemption” by Charles Houston

Submitted to Contest #268

I got away with murder. Well, not actual murder but I had bad thoughts since early childhood. Fratricide, for starters. I was three when my youngest brother was born. That meant I’d get less of my parents’ affection so I picked up a hammer and headed for his crib with evil intent.Mother grabbed me as I was climbing into the crib, weapon in my hand.Three or four years later I broke into my middle brother’s grammar school classroom and trashed it. No one ever knew this – until now. Nor did anyone know that I would steal coins from the Coke mac...

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