Greg DeLaurier

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2024

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“The Bridge” by Greg DeLaurier

Submitted to Contest #265

Following story contains a scene of hunting and killing an animal and also parental mental abuse He knew the forest well. He’d grown up in a village just at its edge and, as a boy, considered the forest his playground, his friend, his teacher. He learned the forest was itself a village in which the trees did not live solitary lives but communicated with and nourished each other. He learned that everything in the forest was part of that village as well. Birds, bugs, earth itself lived by and for each other. He learned you could hold a honeybe...

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“Not Easy being A Superheroes’ Kid” by Greg DeLaurier

Submitted to Contest #263

Lois, I’m worried about the boy.”               â€śWhy’s that honey?”               â€śWell, yesterday he flew down to stop a runaway train, and he couldn’t do it.”               â€śWhat do you mean?,” said Lois.               â€śHe just couldn’t stop it....

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Author bio

Greg is a retired college professor. He has returned to his first love, fiction writing. Greg’s short stories can be found at The Penman Review, Palette (https://www.fyamelrose.org/blog/ ), and Richardhowe.com. He also writes regularly at his site on Substack ( https://substack.com/@gregoryfdelaurier ).