Dave Maiden

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“The Thing” by Dave Maiden

Submitted to Contest #18

“Motherfucking, cock sucking son of an itinerant whore. It was just here.”The thing! Where was the fucking thing? I couldn’t do the meeting without the thing and I just had the fucking thing and now it is fucking missing. Fuck me!Right pocket, left pocket, side pocket, watch pocket. Jacket pocket, shirt pocket, aw fuck it. This is ridiculous. I had exactly 37 minutes to meet the guy at the place to give him the thing and I couldn’t give him the thing without the thing and the thing was missing.I retraced my steps. I ...

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“A Looney Thanksgiving” by Dave Maiden

Submitted to Contest #17

“Don’t worry honey, it will be fine. They’ll love you.”Famous last words from Jennifer as we walked up to her parents’ front door. It wasn’t bad enough that I’d convinced her to drop out of college to work with me on my app. I’d also convinced her to elope to Vegas just two months ago. I’d never even met these people, much less spoken to them and here I was, their little girl in hand along with a basket of apologies and a bottle of supermarket wine. The only way it could have been any worse was if she was pregnant. She was not....

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Author bio

I'm 65 going on 15. All I need is for a teenager to cross streams with me during a lightning storm and boom, I'm back in high school. Former newspaper guy and technical writer now exercising his creative chops when I should be exercising my big gut. In favor of whirled peas. Living the life in Oregon with my wife, son and two crazy dogs.