Gabrielle Etzel

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2021

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“What Friends Are For” by Gabrielle Etzel

When Dr. Kurt said that he could see the gears turning behind Mack’s eyes, it was never a metaphor. In fact, that was all that Mack was. He was a machine: an assemblage of gears, some wires, maybe a few nuts and bolts, and a sensor or two, all in a beady-eyed and box-shaped gadget that could easily be held in the palm of your hand. His mind was a series of 0s and 1s, his legs were a set of four wheels, and his robotic arms were not big enough to hold anything larger than a cigarette (not that he would ever need one ...

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“Applause” by Gabrielle Etzel

When Pietro was a little boy, his grandmother would drive him to school. Pietro loved rainy mornings. After buckling his seatbelt, his grandmother would shift the car into drive and say to him, “Close your eyes and listen to the rain land on the car, mijo. It sounds like the universe is applauding you.” He would close his eyes and, to his grandmother’s convenience, spend the rid...

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