Eric Mock

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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“The Promise” by Eric Mock

Submitted to Contest #60

Jack hated them. And he hated their faces most of all. The pale green skin, the black, oblong eyes that stretched vertically down the humanoid head from the forehead to where the cheeks would be. And the weird, horn-like ridge that seemed to split the crown of their heads in two. And he had one of their ugly, sickening faces in the middle of his crosshairs.   Jack exhaled, preparing to squeeze the trigger. It looked like this one was alone, sitting outside an old warehouse with shipping containers scattered across an overgrown l...

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“The Samaritan” by Eric Mock

Submitted to Contest #57

Okay, time to meet a superhero, Sara thought. She looked up the gleaming, glass  60-story skyscraper before her. She had just stepped off the bus in front of the office of The Samaritan.  She still couldn’t believe her editor had given her the assignment. Once a year, every year, The Samaritan picked one news agency to do an exclusive with him. And this year he picked The Pacific, and The Pacific had chosen her. No matter what magazine did the story, it was usually a fluffy piece about how great The Samaritan was. And she couldn’t...

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“The Brotherhood” by Eric Mock

Submitted to Contest #55

Tim fumed as he dusted the dark, dank attic of his family’s two-story home. It was only 1:00 p.m. but you couldn’t tell up here with the lack of windows. The only light for the entire room was a shaky lightbulb hanging from a chain. That left a lot of dark corners and shadows that wreaked havoc with Tim’s vivid imagination. But right now, thankfully, his anger drowned out his fear.  “This family sucks,” he muttered. His sister tormented him daily, his mother made him clean here despite telling her many times it scared him; and his fath...

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Author bio

I'm just a fledgling author looking to connect with other writers and flex those writing muscles. Check out my stories and let me know what you think! I hope to publish fantasy/sci-fi novels in the near future. Interested in joining like-minded writing groups.