Cody Martin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2023

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3 Stories

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“Road Work” by Cody Martin

Submitted to Contest #235

After experiencing horrible things, a person can sometimes get a feeling of being strangely removed from their body, like as if they’re watching a movie of themself. Someone could be simply standing anywhere at anytime, just doing what they normally do. Then suddenly there’s this feeling of rising above themself, outside themself, like a dream. It is a form of disassociation usually brought on as a response to tremendous shock and trauma. The brain is attempting to protect from overwhelming psychological damage. Like so many times before, ...

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“Claire” by Cody Martin

Submitted to Contest #231

I was coming off a string of bad luck and just kind of wondering what in the hell is the point of all this? I mean, we’re here in this banal existence. Crappy Job. Crappy Life. The same things day in and day out. The only thing that seems to give it any meaning is agony or some form of suffering. Is that why we’re here? To give life a spark by bleeding all over it? To seek cheap thrills until we die? Another hit. Another puff. Rain comes down on me softly, like little kisses on my cheek. I actually like the rain. I don’t despise or mi...

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“The Return of My Hero” by Cody Martin

Submitted to Contest #215

“So go ahead and tell me about this monster that you hunted, Gary. Who was he? Or...what was he?” Gary’s therapist, Doctor Edwards asked the question and adjusted in his seat, listening intently as Gary’s mother Saundra sat nearby listening quietly. The boy spoke, his voice a strange blend of youth and age. “Ah yes, the beast! I know not what type it was or even if it had a face. All I know is that it is up to me, Garret Forswording, the great Hero of Orinea, to slay the horrible thing and thus keep my mother the Queen and all her real...

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