Dale Westervelt

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Salem's Graveyard Shift ” by Dale Westervelt

Submitted to Contest #65

“Dude. That’s just plain creepy! You’re going out there alone?”“It’s not creepy! Well... it kinda is, but it’s not actually creepy. It just seems weird or scary or sort of ‘out there.’ Can we agree together that most of that is in our heads—not in the graveyard itself?”“Maybe. But I’ve known you since, like, the seventh grade. You don’t like heights. You get spooked by black cats. And you’ve always been creeped out by Halloween. You think you are the best candidate for sleeping in the graveyard with a hundred and fifty people ...

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“Faraway The Gownboys” by Dale Westervelt

Submitted to Contest #64

Boarding school drop-offs are bound to be an angst-ridden affair. Not that I have much experience. For me, n = 1. But everyone's bound to be charged up. Happy. Sad. Scared.Three weeks ago, mum and dad broke it to me that they were sloughing me off to Charterhouse for the next four years. My best mates—Shawn, Edgar, Tyler—are off to Eton or Wycliffe or else they're staying home. It’s not like we don’t have top schools here in Birmingham. In soft rebellion, I put off packing. I’m going away from mum and dad, and Janey and Charlie--and the...

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Author bio

My mind is chock full of many-splendored yarn. I write to make sweaters.