David H. Fox

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Harbor of Stillness” by David H. Fox

Submitted to Contest #55

The young man was sitting on a cold bench on the harbor, his legs crossed, and his mind wandering a hundred miles away into the grey mist of the Atlantic. His bright green eyes, clear as silver, were staring into what seemed to be an infinite haze of grey and dark blue. The skies were concrete grey with blemishes of darker shades, and the wind was a light chill ever going its way through the harbor’s area. A huge flock of seagulls cursed their surroundings down at the docks, their cries all together morphing into a distorted white noise. Tin...

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“9 PM on a Thursday” by David H. Fox

Submitted to Contest #54

The funeral ended six hours ago, and I wanted to leave the town as soon as it was possible. They never let me go right after the burial, I had to help them clean up the house and spend some time with the mother. It was my old man, they buried. We weren’t close, as it sometimes happens. He was a lawyer working in his own law firm, and that was all I ever had a need to know about him. I guess it’s easy to figure out that I wasn’t at all sad when they said he passed. Still, out of respect, or else…pity for my mother and little sister, I came al...

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“Horse Parade” by David H. Fox

Submitted to Contest #42

I was sitting on the edge of my bed, completely naked, and the girl was completely naked, the blanket covering her body to her shoulders. She was sleeping, and it was 10 in the morning. It was hot, the worst kind of hot. I tried to get up, and open the window. As soon as I got up, the inside of my head burst in a thousand of tiny explosions inside my skull. I made a groaning sound, as my head was a bobble-head for a good minute and a half. I made it to the window, opened it. The sun was shining remorselessly bright, and underneath it I felt ...

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