Christian Deery

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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“Love at First Sight” by Christian Deery

Submitted to Contest #252

By ‘Negrills’ jerk chicken shop, in the recently developed Jamaicatown district of New York, I walked past a girl who was at least partly passable as ‘The one.’ Everything in Jamaicatown is symmetrical and bright. The color red pops like the poppy fields of Afghanistan. Everything is designed to look old and a little battered. I like it here because it’s quiet. No startling traffic, nothing alarming.This girl, there was nothing extraordinary about her. Her auburn hair was tousled, and hung longer on one side. She smoked with subtle inhalatio...

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“Of Vice and Zen” by Christian Deery

Submitted to Contest #251

Mindfulness is basically mindlessness, I think, failing to rid my brain of the thoughts that this meditation is supposed to eradicate. I’ve taken a walk down to this big oak tree to meditate upon it, as the book suggested I do.           I’ve lived on this street for over twenty years and I’ve never paid more than a second’s notice to this tree. I have neighbours either side of me who I’ve paid equally as little attention to. I’ve painted other people in the street as sort of caricatures...

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Author bio

Christian Deery is a writer from England. He has an MA in Writing from Warwick University and specialises in Dark Humour. His latest work can be found at christiandeery.substack.com/ He writes about himself in third person in short bios and in no other circumstance