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DionTre Speller

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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Don’t Mind Me

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #318

Don’t Mind Me The house fire had been the town’s salvation. Flames devoured the crumbling clapboard structure at the edge of Delhaven, painting the night sky in orange and black. The blast was so fierce it rattled windows three streets over. When firefighters finally smothered the last ember, they discovered little more than a husk of twisted beams and collapsed stone. In those ashes, the police claimed, were the remains of the monster who had haunted them for years: the Crimson Artist. For half a decade, his work had been displayed across a...

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Don’t You Remember Me?

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #317

Don’t You Remember Me? The scent of grease clung to Eli’s clothes, seeping into his skin no matter how many showers he took. The restaurant where he worked was never truly clean—tables sticky with syrup, carpets faintly damp from old spills, fluorescent lights buzzing overhead. He wiped down a booth for the third time, not because it needed it, but because movement was the only thing that distracted him from the gnawing emptiness in his chest. A vibration in his apron pocket pulled him out of his trance. He pulled out his phone, expecting a ...

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Remember Me?

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #298

The iron gates groaned open, and with them, twenty years of memories flooded back like a dam had cracked. Anthony Reyes stepped out into sunlight for the first time as a free man. The wind hit his face differently now—older, wiser, weathered. He held a Bible in one hand, a small duffel in the other, and in his heart, the weight of a past that never let go. Twenty years ago, Anthony had taken a life in a moment of blind rage. A man he’d once called “brother.” A family friend. A backyard-barbecue, godparent-to-my-kid kind of friend. It happene...

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The Weight of One Choice

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #288

The neon glow of the bar sign flickered, casting a dull red hue onto the rain-slicked pavement. The rain pounded relentlessly, forming puddles that rippled with each drop. A man slouched over the bar, swirling the last of his whiskey in a glass. His name was James, and his world had unraveled in the past six months. The divorce papers still sat on his kitchen table, unopened for days. His ex-wife had taken everything that mattered: the house, the dog, even their friends had chosen sides. He was alone. "One more," he slurred, tapping the glas...

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Before the Last Light Fades

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #287

The sky hung heavy with smoke, the distant cries of the oppressed swallowed by the towering buildings of a city once free. A mother and daughter weaved through the shadows, their breath shallow, their hands concealed beneath tattered gloves. Vale gripped Iris’s tiny hand as they maneuvered through the ruins of their former home, each step a calculated whisper in the night. The Iron Thorn’s brand was the mark of submission or death. And they would take neither. The air carried the scent of decay, a putrid reminder of the regime’s cruelty. Peo...

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The Final Upload: A Tale of Courage and Sacrifice

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #285

The air was thick with tension inside the hidden safehouse. Abby, Marsha, Jacob, and Daniel sat around a dimly lit table; their faces illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen. The sound of distant gunfire and sirens had become a grim background symphony in their lives. “I remember when all of this was different,” Abby said softly, her voice breaking the heavy silence. She glanced at Marsha, who nodded in agreement. “Yeah,” Marsha added. “I remember when we were filming makeup tutorials and fashion hauls without a care in the world. It feel...

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The Shadow

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #219

The Shadow The night was silent, draped in an inky darkness that swallowed the world outside the small security room. I sat alone, surrounded by an array of flickering screens that illuminated my face in a ghastly blue glow. The hum of the surveillance equipment was the only sound in the room, its monotony broken only by the occasional creak of the building settling or the distant wail of a siren. I was the lone sentinel, tasked with safeguarding the premises during the bewitching hours of the night shift. Hours had passed since I settle...

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A Prayer

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #186

"Life just feels so much different without you, Somedays I just feel empty and hollow on the inside. It’s been rough getting adjusted to everything, Even though a piece of me feels like it died, But a small piece of me is Still Alive on the Inside. Somedays are good, While others I remember so vividly, It gets hard to not think of that one moment, But it is forever etched into my mind, That moment haunts me, Even looking at your pictures reminds me of that day, That day my hope and faith were crushed, So much so that I must redefine those wo...

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Nighttime Cruising

DionTre Speller

Just did overtime at my call center job. I got off extremely late than what I am used to. I usually get off around 8 but since it’s a holiday weekend I got off at 11:30pm. My eyes are very heavy and I still have to drive home. So many calls and dealing with the public takes a lot out of you. I clocked out of work and went to the parking garage. I spot my car which is a gray 2006 Hyundai Sonata and unlock my car doors.BEEP-BEEPI hopped in my car and start it up. As I began buckling up, I remembered to turn my dash camera on. I had a couple of...

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Nightly Walking

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #102

Sometimes I have trouble falling to sleep. Just lying in my bed tossing and turning hoping that sleep will come soon. But it seems I can never find the slumber I want. Just closing my eyes and lying-in bed but nothing happens. Not even a drift. I hit bed usually by 10:30pm. I even take a sleeping pill every night to fall asleep. Not even that helps. I do this all the time like it is a common part of my routine. I did find that going outdoors and walking around the neighborhood helps. My neighborhood is about a mile long. My neighborhood...

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Window Watching

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #97

Trigger warning: violence I had a tough time sleeping that night. After all the stress I endured today it felt like I was losing my mind. It just felt like my mind was foggy. After a long twelve-hour shift on my construction job; while in 101-degree weather, the last thing I needed now was no sleep. My body is tired, but my mind just keeps wandering. After many moments of tossing and turning I got up and go down my old creaky stairs to go to the kitchen for a drink. I grabbed a cup and started to fill my cup up with ice from my refrigerator....

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Snowy Forest

DionTre Speller

Submitted to Contest #77

I remember walking down a common hiking path up the snowy mountains in Montana at 3:00 in the evening. While hiking in these mountains sometimes it is hard to get a signal; but I was only going to walk this trail for 30 minutes or so and come back to my car. I start stretching by my car for a little while. I reach my hand in my coat pocket, grabbed my phone and checked the time. It was 3:13pm. I noticed a weather advisory on my phone. The weather advisory was about a massive winter blizzard in my area. I looked at the sky and it was clear. A...

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Unfortunate Circumstances

DionTre Speller

Checks Wristwatch. “It’s 12:42 in the morning; why did I randomly have to be so hungry at this time of night?", DionTre thought to himself. “I just need to hurry back home and get to sleep,” he thought. ‘It is not safe out here at night for anyone, especially me. I just did ten years in prison for driving a getaway car for a bank robbery. I did testify against JaTwan and Joshua in exchange for a lighter sentence. In the courtroom, they both had an outburst and told me I better watch my back”, DionTre remembering as he continued walking...

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