Evan Lanning

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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2 Stories

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“Goodbye Artemis, Goodbye Icarus ” by Evan Lanning

Submitted to Contest #120

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; . . . Gaze no more in the bitter glass. ~ W.B. Yeats, “The Two Trees”              The sun stretched out over the sky with a ferocity akin to the thrashing wings of lore. All the daylight poured into the decaying garden, and affected it faster than did the approaching night. Scorched, wilted, brittled, shorn of all life.            Young Luther writhed...

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“Things Unsaid” by Evan Lanning

Submitted to Contest #14

Coursing lightly through the air, a bee came to a rest on the porch balcony. The soft night air was disturbed by this unusual sight. Buzzing from this railing to that, it seemed to mock Edgar as he took another drink. He brushed it away and it flew off momentarily. As it came back, Edgar hesitated before looking out into the temperate spring night of croaking frogs and flickering bugs. He took another drink. The out-of-place bee returned and edged along the banister before Edgar.  This time Edgar, wide-eyed, pulled back his hand ready...

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Author bio

Author of "The Global and American Spirit." Find it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the publisher's website: https://www.xlibris.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-001236636 Really like classic literature. Trying to read more of it while testing out the waters of fiction and creative writing.