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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020
The smell of booze wafted in Daniel's living room. Cigarette stench stained the air. Daniel lay on the couch mindlessly staring at the football game on his cheap tv set. Brown, glass bottles littered the floor and tables. He could hear the couple upstairs yelling at each other for the fifth time that hour. Daniel tried to drown it all out. The horrible apartment he could barely afford, his growing addiction, everything. Thinking about the past is something that is both painful and bittersweet to Daniel. If his old high school c...
Submitted to Contest #82
Everyone is staring at me, and I know why. I keep my head down, still trying to listen to the lesson. People whisper to each other, acting like they are trying to keep it a secret. I just want to be normal, but to them, I will always be a robot. An item with no emotions. I don't know if they are stuck in the past or are just stupid. No. Don't think that. One of these children might one day be your owner. Or they might buy a new model. One that doesn't have to go to school and learn about its ancestors' past. One that already knows everythin...
Submitted to Contest #72
Carla rubbed her temples harshly. She couldn't remember ever feeling this stumped before. She needed to get this done. Being a lawyer had been her goal since she was 12. Now at the age of 25, she was finally ready to apply for a job at a law firm. She had met all the requirements and answered the questions, but one seemed to hold her back. It read, Why did you choose law? She had made sure to answer all the questions truthfully and still intended on that. It wasn't that she didn't know why she chose law, it was that she didn't want to...
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