Dustin Eubanks

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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“Smoke signals.” by Dustin Eubanks

Submitted to Contest #127

My girlfriend, Lena, has become expectant. She says something wonderful is coming; there is a jitter in the air is how she phrases it, an auburn magnetism. I trust her, because she is usually right, and I like how hard she tries with words. She is making a cup of coffee in the kitchen while she mulls over this latest energy, humming to herself, her dreamcatcher earrings dancing above her shoulders as she moves between cabinets. She stops a moment to hold her right hand on her belly in several places, wondering, and then resumes the morning ...

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“the turbulence of Marco” by Dustin Eubanks

Submitted to Contest #126

We are gripping the chain-link fence together, feeling it vibrate as it holds the runways in and keeps us out. Planes scuff the pavement, puff rubber clouds as they touch down, slit lines of silver through the humidity with their wingtips as they pull up and away. Marco has grown old since I’ve seen him. He is chiseled chin and arms, with just the slightest excess of weight left at the hips. His skin is the same color it’s always been, though darker in this dusk; he is the color of figs. His facial hair grows in uneven spurts. The black hai...

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Author bio

I am a Des Moines-based teacher and writer. I particularly love fiction with a hint of the unreal or magic added to it. Taking life as it comes. Trying to dispense love.