Geoffrey Widdison

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Letters” by Geoffrey Widdison

There was something at once compelling and depressing about the task of cleaning up after a dead man. Trying to sort through the detritus of a long life, and figure out what still mattered. What was worth keeping, what other people would want to keep, what was worth selling, and what belonged in the trash. The cardboard box I carried was an example of the latter, filled with old documents and owner's manuals, but also ornaments, souvenirs, framed certificates, things that must have meant something to my father, but their importance was lost ...

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“Season's End” by Geoffrey Widdison

Submitted to Contest #63

By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire. It didn't really strike me, until that moment, that I hadn't left the house in six months. I'd gone inside in spring, I was coming out in autumn. It was as gorgeous a fall season as I'd seen. A perfect explosion of yellow, orange and red, highlighted by the sinking sun. The crisp breeze riffled my hair and spun fallen leaves around my feet. In the park across the street, kids were running and playing, enjoying the cool weather before winter fell. It made me almost physically ill. Sh...

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“Scavenger” by Geoffrey Widdison

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #60

If I'm being totally honest, my first instinct was to just leave her there. I was fully aware, even in that moment, that the person I was, just a year earlier, would have been horrified at that idea, and disgusted by what I'd become. That wasn't what changed my mind though. I didn't feel a whole lot of kinship with my former self. That well-fed, complacent, self-satisfied prick was free to sit around imagining how noble he'd be in my place, when his idea of a rough time was when the cable went out. &n...

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Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #60

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