Geran Caywood

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2022

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“Candlekeeping” by Geran Caywood

Submitted to Contest #277

We each held blunted longswords and wore everything but our war plates— those were being cleaned. Quintus pressed into my space with his blade presented, tip towards my chest; I felt the mud press up around my boots as I retreated with my blade in a high guard, tip towards his knees. His father growled in the church-tongue from somewhere to my right, behind the fence that had been erected for the sparring pit. I did not speak the church-tongue. They knew I did not speak it. Quintus jerked forward as my back came against the fence. I sl...

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“Waking Up” by Geran Caywood

Submitted to Contest #149

Before I opened my eyes, before I could have registered the sky above me, I felt the grass against my hands poking me from below and decided that I was on the ground. Opening my eyes confirmed as much. White and blue passed over slowly, cut by nearby rooftops. I grabbed at the same grass and used it for just the slightest bit more leverage to right myself, wiping sleep from my eyes with the inside of my shoulder in the same movement. A second push, with my legs, and I was standing. I looked down to my watch, and found time creeping i...

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