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David Richards

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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The Library of Ilksar

Wum Lon felt the breeze flow through her hair as she contemplated what awaited her at the end of the journey. A mix of emotions rolled across her mind, as the landscape below scrolled by under the stratoship. She felt a sense of cautious optimism. When the ship landed today, it should be the culmination of years of research and dreaming and planning. The object she had spent her life looking for should be in hand soon. There was also a sense of righteousness, that she would be able to tell all the people who had doubted her or stood in her ...

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Runyard's

Harold sat at the bar of Runyard’s Restaurant before the early lunch crowd came in. It was a rather lame time to be sitting at a bar, Harold thought. He had placed his jacket rather lamely on the back of the chair, and crossed his legs rather lamely in the legs of the chair. His arms were laid rather lamely on the bar top and he stared rather lamely at the menu in between his arms, though he already knew what he was going to order.The waiter at the bar glanced back at Harold, while he wiped a cup, waiting for the order he already knew was co...

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The Conclave

Jim didn't mean to be looking. It's just that he was standing, being a good gentleman, and she had taken his seat on the subway, so she was, you know, kind of in front of him. It's not his fault that she opened her phone right in front of him. And where else was he supposed to be looking? The front of the subway car was filled with the same working stiffs and miscreants as every other subway car. Besides, she was attractive, even beautiful; blond with high cheekbones and full lips, she had a smattering of freckles across the bridge of her n...

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