Holden Burkholder

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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“Discount Pinkerton” by Holden Burkholder

Submitted to Contest #204

“The bastard’s still sending letters to her you know? There’s one mail wagon that the town pays privately to go to Wichita and he’s using my money to make sure these letters, these insults to my character, these envelopes full of smut get to my daughter!” I found the mayor of Springfield Illinois to be a prideful man. His office had an artisan desk made from Canadian spruce, the chair was tanned with leather fresh from the Chicago meat packing plants, and brass rimmed portraits covered the walls.        &n...

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“Medici On High” by Holden Burkholder

Submitted to Contest #203

Calvin Suthers was often described by his peers as, “ambitious”. Having grown up poor in the streets of New York, he climbed his way out of poverty and into the political ranks of the city. A firm democrat, but no slave to the national platform, he worked solely for the people of his city, at times abandoning the platform, or strengthening it beyond their intention, he took no money from their PACs or from lobbyists, he was well respected and made his mark without a shred of nepotism or hypocrisy.        &...

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“Marriage Cans Dangling From the Bounty” by Holden Burkholder

Submitted to Contest #201

            The sky shone more and more a deeper and deeper red. It shined, it glistened, it danced across the entirety of North America. It was one in the morning, yet was bright as though the sun were just setting. It was growing brighter. The deeper the red the brighter the shine. The more distorted the shine the closer the star seemed to get.                It was no star. No, just a rock of ice. A rock th...

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“Hollow Voices” by Holden Burkholder

Submitted to Contest #199

Nestled in a northern Rocky Mountain valley was a small town in Idaho called Stoneshore. It was founded in the late 1800’s as a water stop on the way to California and Oregon, beginning as a collection of four buildings at a dirt crossroads, waxing to a population of four thousand before waning to fifteen hundred. Electricity came, the prospectors and their descendants left, and at some point it became the seat of Shoctwana County. The town was fitted with a federal appointed judge alongside its official postage route. This route was fitted ...

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My cat got pate gravy on his head and still wants me to pet him. I don't know if he dunked it in or maybe grazed it on the bowl while he was eating? It just makes all the nipping and cuddling he does gross, but he's a pretty gross guy all anyway.