Elisa Thompson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2024

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“No More Purple” by Elisa Thompson

Submitted to Contest #252

When dawn came, Dexter Mann was still racing westward along Interstate 8. As the night paled and feathery clouds turned pink then magenta, he began watching the rearview mirror again. The green Ford pickup was still back there, still tracking him.He had been on the run for four days now. After the fiasco in the Harvard lab, Dex had jogged back to his apartment and started packing. In ten minutes he’d gathered food items and clothing. With his mentor now dead, face dipped in acid, all their important scientific research stolen, Dex knew he wa...

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“Funny Business” by Elisa Thompson

Submitted to Contest #250

It was black-tie comedy night at the Four Seasons Hotel and Dash Moody was due onstage in five minutes. Unfortunately for Dash, he’d just consumed three plates of Thai chicken and was burping volcanic clouds of curry into the electric atmosphere of the Pinnacle Ballroom. This often happened before a performance—the burping was a by-product of his stress eating—but tonight this was especially bad because Dash’s longtime nemesis, Oggie Phelps, was in the audience. Oggie was a hack, but for some reason the crowds loved him. His joke...

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“Five-Star Fish Tacos” by Elisa Thompson

Submitted to Contest #249

The first time Beto saw Helen, she was dancing by herself at one of those touristy beach clubs in Puerto Peñasco. Eyes closed, she swayed to Ricky Martin’s Canción Bonita, wholly oblivious to the fact that people had set down their drinks to watch. Helen was young and uninhibited back then, in a green bikini top and a flowery skirt that kept inching lower with every rotation of her voluptuous hips. The men watched because they wanted her, and their wives and girlfriends watched because they all wished they had the guts to dance like that. He...

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Author bio

I live in sunny Mesa, Arizona, where I write contemporary fiction, thrillers, and sci-fi. I publish a weekly serial on Kindle Vella, "The Blue Dome Chronicles" and have several self-published novels on Amazon: "The Girl from Coldriver", "The Therapist's Nephew", "Boondocking with Beelzebub", and a novella titled "True Confessions of a Middle-Aged Werewolf".