Corneigh Hoff

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023

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“Blending in” by Corneigh Hoff

Submitted to Contest #195

The limousine door opened, and a bombardment of flashlights struck the stooping figure emerging. One hand shielding his eyes, the other perfunctorily waved to the gathered journalists. “Thank you,” the man murmured as he rushed into the church. “Mr Foresta, one question, Mr Foresta…” But he was already inside. His name was Giovanni Foresta, the famous tenor. Well, Giovanni Foresta was a name given to him, not by his parents, but by his agent, ten years ago. His parents named him Jim Woods, but who remembered? When he was in h...

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“Brain Surgery” by Corneigh Hoff

Submitted to Contest #194

“No, no, dad! Just keep it straight up! Now you point it to the target like you’re holding a pistol. Just hold it straight up, yeah, like that. Now look at the screen, look at the screen. Ok. Can you see the target? Make sure it’s somewhere in the middle of the screen. Now press the power and volume buttons together. On the right-hand side. The two top buttons. Right. Are you pressing them both?” The old man sighed, despair in his eyes. “I’ll never get the hang of this,” he said. “That’s because you moved your phone, don’t move it. Here....

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“Skin-deep” by Corneigh Hoff

Submitted to Contest #193

Glenda Gracious was born with a severe skin condition, and even though cosmetics offered numerous ways of masking it, it was always conspicuously visible. On the left side of her face, the red, raspy skin seemed to pull down her left eye and make the corner of her mouth drop. * At school, children called her Sandpaper Girl and later, in the years of puberty, she was ignored and shunned by most boys. In her eagerness to be wanted and admired, she was perhaps too permissive to what she called the leftover boys. Just before her 17th birthday t...

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