Elias McEaneney

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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“Endings” by Elias McEaneney

Content Warning: mental health, implied self harm, mentions of physical violence, war, revolution Excerpt of Chapter 7 of “On The Life of Alarie Montgomery,” “Endings,” written by Esther Lambert Perhaps one would find it cliche to ponder a messy situation by connecting it to the trolley problem, wherein you can either let a train hit 3 people but, debatably, you can keep your hands clean, or you can change the tracks, redirect the train to 1 person stuck to the tracks, but you’re now very directly responsible for that death, even if...

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“Finding a Place” by Elias McEaneney

Submitted to Contest #125

Feeling his hair blowing wildly in the breeze, he kept his eyes set forward toward the light, just breaking through the trees. It was far too late for his comfort, but the boy kept moving anyway, too many nights having been spent against a tree or in a field for both his emotional and his physical comfort, young joints aching as though he were of an old man, hunger weighing his body down toward the earth below his feet. If his navigational skills were any good- the main part of that phrase being if- then it was likely he’d find himself in ci...

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