Conda Douglas

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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“Crazy Hot” by Conda Douglas

Submitted to Contest #53

Heat makes some people crazy. Not me. Never me. Oh sure, I hate the heat, same as everybody else. But I figured out how to break these horrid heat spells, so common where I live, in a high desert plain in Idaho, huge emphasis on desert. And dry heat?  A hundred and five, it don’t matter the humidity or lack of same. Hold on, now, I’m getting ahead of myself, the curse of old age. I’ll race myself to my own grave, I swear. Not yet though, today is a day for someone else to die of the heat. But first, let me tell ya how it all starte...

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“Silent Flight” by Conda Douglas

Submitted to Contest #45

Germany, 1976 “This way.” Adam, the officious self-appointed leader of our gaggle of chattering Americans, bright plumed birds, called to me. I sighed at my lack of courage to go alone to the concentration camp. I joined the group clustered around the bus stop in the picture pretty village of Dachau. Marked Americans by our backpacks arrayed like deformed humps, we stared at the line of buses. The door opened on the third one down the line. The young driver, his bronze hair flashing in the sun like a bird’s bright feathers, gestured and cal...

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