Geoffrey M

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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2 Stories

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“I'm Running for Their Lives” by Geoffrey M

Submitted to Contest #92

I’ve never run ten miles in under an hour before. But now three lives depend on it, and I’m determined to cover the distance in a six-minute-per-mile pace before darkness sets in. I’m about a kilometer into it, and I feel warm and settled. And with a slight downhill on hard-packed gravel, I throw down the first mile in 5:55. I had not started my day planning on doing this run. My day began with a sunrise yoga class at an assisted-living facility where I volunteer. Shortly after breakfast, I began driving three of the elderly residents thro...

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“Broken Silence” by Geoffrey M

Submitted to Contest #91

“Get out of my chair and put down my paper,” Robert Mulligan whisper-screams to the man wearing a blue button-down shirt, who’d just plopped down into a leather recliner, the Wall Street Journal blocking his entire appearance. “Beat it, buddy. I’ll only be a minute,” the man replies. “Shush, shush, shush,” says the bespectacled librarian, hair balled tightly with bobby pins, left hand propped firmly on her hip, right index finger jutting perpendicular over her lips. Standing in the expansive wood-framed entryway to the library’s Reading ...

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