Evan Anderson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

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“The House Always Wins” by Evan Anderson

Submitted to Contest #246

“Gentlemen, The Flop.” With a glint in his eye, The Dealer deftly flipped 3 cards upright before us. I glanced around the ornate poker table at my new friends to study their faces, but the bourbon had rendered their tells nigh unreadable. “Jorge, the bet is to you.” Jorge, the amiable thirty-something to my left, squinted at the cards face-up on the table: The nine of clubs, three of clubs, and queen of spades squinted back at him. “Check,” he said with a sheepish grin, “Gotta pace myself tonight with you cutthroats!” He looked to his left a...

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“The Old World” by Evan Anderson

Submitted to Contest #91

Moody sighed as he stared down the barrels of the 3 guns pointed at his chest from the other vessel - He didn’t have time to deal with these poor starving fools. The radiation sickness would likely kill him in less than a month. He could probably make it to the port before his legs stopped working, but he couldn’t afford any more delays. The first pirate leapt over the gunwale of Moody’s depressing little sailboat and pressed his pistol directly into the chest of the grizzled old man, motioning for the other two to board and search the cab...

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