Gary Phillips

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019

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“Time For A Little Spin” by Gary Phillips

Submitted to Contest #43

“Pepaw, what’s that?”Olivia pointed to the strange object placed high on the shelves.Pepaw looked to where Olivia was pointing. His granddaughter had superb eyes. He would have barely noticed it if she hadn’t said something. He pulled his step stool closer to the shelf so he could reach it. He had to move a few boxes, but soon he had grasped the object of Olivia’s attention. He descended the stepstool and set it on the ground in front of her.“They call this a Sit and Spin, Livy. It was one of your mom’s old toys when she was your age. I forg...

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“Displaced ” by Gary Phillips

Submitted to Contest #22

Why had he come? James did not care for parties and Gail knew it. He cared even less for fancy parties where he didn’t know anyone. Thank God Gail had kept it simple and hadn’t chosen to have one of those throwback Roaring 20s parties that everyone seemed so fond of this year. He wouldn't be here, except Gail insisted he attend. James would prefer to be home working on his latest fantasy novel. Who was he kidding? This was the fifth novel he'd started. Four other novels languished unfinished on his laptop and this one would meet the sam...

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“The Fight Before Christmas” by Gary Phillips

Submitted to Contest #21

This was not the first Christmas party Sienna attended at Frost Payments. She accepted the position as Director of the Underwriting Department four years ago and had attended every party since. It was the only time she could recall that an office party had broken down into a physical altercation. Sure there had been wars of words aplenty at other gatherings, but guests had kept enough sense to rein their darker impulses in before matters got personal. It didn’t surprise Sienna in the slightest that it was Craig and J...

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Author bio

Gary Phillips is a tabletop roleplaying game fanatic for over 20 years who now seeks to use his accumulated experience to become an urban fantasy author. He was a contributing author on the Survivors Guide to the Age of Blood for the True20 Blood Throne campaign setting. Gary lives in Mesa, Arizona with his two cats Winks and Honey.