Damian Perry

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Just Right” by Damian Perry

Submitted to Contest #43

Note for the younger readers: a Bear in today’s society is a gay man who is big and hairy. Now read on.Goldy slid the crowbar into the slim gap in the old windowsill and lifted it with a small grunt, hearing the snap of the window latch breaking free. She cast a furtive glance around to make sure nobody was watching and then quickly slid the window open and slithered with a practiced grace through the entry and into the darkened house. Once inside, she stood up and pushed her dirty blonde hair back under her navy hoody. She’d heard that thes...

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“The most common question.” by Damian Perry

Submitted to Contest #32

I felt the key pressing into the palm of my hand and I smiled. The house before me was a two-storey terraced house across from an oval in Clifton Hill. It looked small but inviting. Part of that might have been the key in my hand.“I want you to feel at home here,” Ted had told me as he handed it to me over breakfast. “And if you want to move in, well, that would be fine too.” He’d blushed through his beard and I’d held his hand and grinned like a kid.It wasn’t a new relationship, but it felt like it was going somewhere. We’d met at the end o...

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“Mother's Day” by Damian Perry

Submitted to Contest #16

Hailey sat in bed and stared at the badge, trying to keep the panic from her expression and maintain the air of excitement she held for the Reject Shop soap and the paper basket her children had made her. I took her cuppa from a suddenly shaking hand and looked over her shoulder to see what it said. I winced.“Hey kids, how about you go and get your mother another round of toast?” I told them and they clambered off the foot of the bed and raced to the kitchen to fight over who was going to put on too much butter. Hailey stared at me and I shr...

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Author bio

Author of Dwarves in Space, currently hunting for a publisher for a YA trilogy set in Melbourne. Read me on findingdamo.com