Denney Owen

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2024

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Nothing Happens” by Denney Owen

Submitted to Contest #253

The title tells you all you need to know: nothing happens. You could walk on by and continue with your day, and the world would keep on turning, indifferent. It doesn't matter whether you read this or not; in the grand scheme of things, nothing happens. We agreed to meet at that café in Hamburg, a place suspended in time, where minutes stretch and contract as if obeying a different logic. I sit down and check my watch.6:23. The hands, like faithful messengers of time, announce the hour with a solemnity that seems to mock my waiting.6:24. I w...

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“The Manuscript of Kashi” by Denney Owen

Submitted to Contest #251

There are places where the veil between the known and the unfathomable is perilously thin, and it is in such realms that truths are best left forgotten. Ancient Kashi, now Varanasi, conceals more than history in its name. With dusk settling, the city wraps itself in a twilight shroud. Smoke threads twist through the air, blending with murmured prayers, thickening the atmosphere with an almost tangible sense of mystery.The Ganges River reflects the glimmering lights of ceremonial fires along the ghats, where the sacred and the profane dance i...

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Author bio

Unfortunately for me, I’m not much of a writer, a good one at least. I’m more of a painter—words are my brush and your mind is my canvas. Here I am, weaving ideas with my keyboard...