David Pearce

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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“Party Time” by David Pearce

Submitted to Contest #263

Henry’s mum was aghast. “The viper,” she gasped, “the reptile, the slimy little…” Ellie thought it best to let her anger run its course. She would not have used such language to describe her child and this was not the time to point out the inappropriateness of “slimy” with regard to…or to remind her that her son was nearly nineteen. “How did he..? Is it too..?” She waved the invitation list below Ellie’s nose as if to imply that it must be her fault. “Both of them! That Viking! That Thor!” She had begun to run out of punctuation, first quest...

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“ESPECHERLY HARD TIMES” by David Pearce

Submitted to Contest #261

There are, according to Mrs. D. very very infrequent good times and very very often bad times. That very morning she reported to Charlie that the rats had eaten the last of their children. There were reasons to be cheerful, of course, reasons to be cheerful included one less mouth to feed and one less or should that be fewer she could never remember not that it mattered now on account of the child being dead children to send to school wrapped only in toilet paper, not that Mrs. D. has any objection to toilet paper in principle, in fact she t...

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