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Daniel Yokum

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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Visions As Metaphors

Submitted to Contest #304

The first day of the workshop was a disaster, scary even. The program was loose, unstructured, the emphasis on volume of output, ideas flowing, torrents with no analytical thought. After all I’d been through in the last few years, the workshop’s buzz phrases—stream of consciousness creation, enhanced intimacy with thoughts and emotions—should have triggered my alarms. I had taken a damn bus all the way from the city to somewhere in New Jersey, slept on a mat on a distant friend’s kitchen floor, and the next morning, gone to class. The teache...

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Bass Notes

Submitted to Contest #195

warning: references to earlier substance abuse Bass Notes Dan Yokum Three of us, the backups, are already on stage, our instruments ready, when the promotor announces the stars, the two sisters, Janie and Marie. They glide out from the wing, Janie with her violin, wave and smile at the roaring audience, and position themselves behind their microphones. Marie picks up her guitar and Janie flips her hand toward me, signaling me to start my slow, steady bass thump. The drums kick in, gentle at first, then the organ swell, and off we go. Ma...

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