Charlie Phillips

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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“The Insurrection of Biscuits” by Charlie Phillips

Submitted to Contest #71

“I got chocolate chip.” The first little voice flittered out from the huddle at the edge of the school yard. Then another and another and another. “I got Oreos. I had three but I already ate two. I still have one left, though. Tommy, what’d you bring?” Thomas was the largest and the loudest, a first among fourth-grade peers. “My mom made these the other day,” said he. “They’re her favorite but they have nuts and I hate nuts. I dropped in on the floor of the bus this morning and then I coughed on it. I kn...

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“Quiet on the Floor” by Charlie Phillips

Submitted to Contest #68

It’s an orange mess. There’s trees and the ocean and the sun coming up behind some boats but it’s just a drab wall behind it all. It’s not even a projector screen. It’s just an empty cinder-block space that looks like someone splattered their breakfast all over it as much as sunrise on a beach. It drives me fucking nuts but it’s not like I can look away. They have us locked in here twelve hours a day and it smells like piss.                “Wh...

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