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Christopher Ford

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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Ho Ho Ho, Let it Snow

Christopher Ford

Submitted to Contest #178

It occurred in his mind–the trail of light following everything that moved and every time he turned his head. Parker’s legs lurched forward with a drunken grace and stopped at a decorative, rather expensive-looking bench with cherubs and leafy vines carved into the stone. His feet swiveled. Objects in his view swirled with him, growing a diminishing tail of their residual image moving in 180 degrees with his sights. Parker sat down. Eyes shut–not his choice–and he twisted open the Desani and plunged the cleansing liqu...

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Cycles in Cantonese

Christopher Ford

Submitted to Contest #177

Long ago, America was duped into a controversial law enforcement program in which certain people in positions of power were allowed to keep tabs on children, sometimes as young as infants, and intentionally lead them down a path of crime so that they can be fast-tracked into a system where they are under the control of an invisible arm of the government for their entire lives without any trial or reasonable chance for appeal. The unconstitutional “Minotaur Program” is polarizing to say the least. As torrential needles spill t...

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Love is a Garden

Christopher Ford

January 1, 2299, 12:40 AMI am alive. My eyes open for the first time; light pours in. My mind processes the photons, organizes them. I am now looking into the eyes of my creator. He asks me if I know who I am. I tell him that I am Jean. He asks me if I know who he is. He is Dr. Conrad Hartford; my husband?“That’s right. And do you know what you are? What your purpose is?”I tell him that I am artificial. Meant to replace her.“No. Not ‘replace her.’ To continue being her. You look just like her.”He asks about my memories–the ones he ...

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