Elliott Arnold

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2022

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“The Shadow” by Elliott Arnold

Submitted to Contest #157

I am a monster of malice, bound like a puppet to a boy. Every day, my master skips to school with his music bag, with his backpack and his ‘friends’. They talk and they laugh, they sink their feet into puddles, they spit on the hedgerows. And wherever he goes, I have no choice but to follow. He moves? I move. He… gestures, and I, by the tendril hands of fate, gesture also. I do ‘Fortnite dances’ in long relief on the road, run over in my shame by cars and the slowing of the school bus. He forces me off the curb and drowns me in the river wh...

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“A Confluence of Minds” by Elliott Arnold

Submitted to Contest #153

      It was a late summer evening in 2022, on a small suburban road in outer London, when a great confluence of minds began. On one side of the road – staggering and pitching between the delicate pools of lamplight – a modern philosopher made his way home. An evening of bowling with some friends had left him drowsy and drunk – pensive, perhaps, over the current state of affairs in the world, saddened by the general decline of it all. He wavered to and fro, reaching a hand out to steady himself against a wheely ...

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