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George Ryan Holton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020

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Mercado Norte

George Ryan Holton

Submitted to Contest #77

Artemis had been working at Mercado Norte since Arthur had first brought him to the market six years ago. Arthur had told Artemis that, in exchange for room, board and health benefits, he needed Artemis to cover the store’s customer relations and pest control duties. For Artemis, it was a pretty good deal. Even in Chicago, where he had seen rats almost as big as himself when he was younger, very few rats tried to get into buildings, so the pest control was mostly limited to small mice and the occasional cockroach. And as for customer relatio...

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Apartment 303

George Ryan Holton

Submitted to Contest #75

William looked down at the woman’s olive skin. Even in the middle of winter it was perfect. Like she had just come out of the sun. His eyes moved down to her almond shaped eyes, high cheek bones, and small, straight nose, and was just as taken with her as he had been when he had first seen her four years ago. It had been summer then. William had lived in Apartment 301 for two years at that point, and since moving in had day dreamed of having a beautiful neighbor move in to fall in love with. Given his otherwise introverted nature, someone ...

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The Pursuit of the Poles

George Ryan Holton

Submitted to Contest #74

2020 had been a banner year for Sergeant Reginald Cottonbottom (Sarge, to anyone who was interested in remaining in one piece). Due to his flatmate working from their shared residence for a majority of the year, and even taking nearly a month off entirely, they had not only been able to spend more time together than ever before, but had ventured out enough that Sarge had claimed more poles than even he had imagined possible. But as the year drew to a close, Sarge was left with a nagging feeling of regret, as there still remained four poles h...

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The Alignment Support System Hatchway Open Launch Engineer

George Ryan Holton

Submitted to Contest #74

For the last four years, eight months and fourteen days, Mark Wallace had worked this same desk in the basement of NASA’s Launch Control Center. For every launch, scrubbed launch and practice launch since moving to this office, he had sat at this same spot, and at the two seconds to lift-off mark had hit the same sequence of commands: blue square, green circle. There had been hiccups along the way, of course, but Mark’s mother had assured him that was normal at a place like NASA. The worst of these hiccups had taken place on the thir...

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