Edgar Beck

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“My World” by Edgar Beck

Submitted to Contest #39

There wasn’t much to say. There never was when you were alone.That is, until the doorbell rang.I was in my room—or what was left of it. The ceiling was still caved in, piling on the space my bed had occupied. The once-pink-and-blue-striped walls stood bleak and gray. Time had corroded the paint and the dinosaur drawings I’d doodled on it. Dust blanketed everything. I was lost in the emptiness once again, in another episode of wordless grief, when it rang.The dilapidated house had become just another hollow shell, a corpse, an echo of what it...

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“Not How I'd Imagined It” by Edgar Beck

Submitted to Contest #23

Everything shook.Lysa’s eyes were failing her. The gash in her back bled profusely, and the pain was getting to her head. She forced her eyes open. She remembered being hauled onto Pa’s cart, a deep red trail following her. Now she lay on the floorboard, rocking this way and that. Winds howled past, piercing her with their chill. Lysa shivered like a newborn in winter. Plumes of smoke rose in the distance, further darkening the gray sky. As the cart rumbled onward, they shrank into the horizon.Her tired eyes shut again. She saw only darkness...

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Author bio

A koala bear who found a typewriter lying around in my forest. It's mine now, so don't bother coming back for it. I'll cut you.