Franklin Stein

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2024

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“The Mirror” by Franklin Stein

Submitted to Contest #267

“Oh. look at the frame on this one,” Margaret said, running her hands down the gold-painted finish. The mirror she admired was in an old antique shop in the mountains. Every mountain town was the same; one or two ice cream shops, a salt-water taffy store, a mountain chocolate shop, a couple of western bars selling bison or venison for the adventurous eaters…and an antique shop.  The quality of these shops varied, but after a long dry spell of antique hunting, Margaret seemed determined to purchase something today.  “Yeah, the frame...

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“Reaching Orbit” by Franklin Stein

Submitted to Contest #265

Reaching Orbit Frank Stein The plane seemed massive for just a crew of ten. There were four of us tourists - going to space for the first time, and there were two shuttle pilots and two airplane pilots and two others who, well I am not sure what they did, they said that they made sure that nobody died.  So I was glad to have them.The plane was an old airliner with a winged rocket perched on top. They were going to take off like a normal plane and when we got high enough, and if everything was okay, we would climb into the rocket and get...

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