Holden Burkholder

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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“Discount Pinkerton” by Holden Burkholder

“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...

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“Medici On High” by Holden Burkholder

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, ...

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“Marriage Cans Dangling From the Bounty” by Holden Burkholder

            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 o...

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“Hollow Voices” by Holden Burkholder

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 Sho...

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Author bio

TV Girl is a weird band. All their songs except like two about why he hates women. Like, Lover's Rock and What's Not Yours are actually kinda sweet, but the rest are just the guy finding more and more creative ways to call women that won't screw him whores. And even Lover's Rock loses this "privelege" of being the not mean song when you realize half his songs, including that one, are about this one girl that he says led him on or whatever. The first song I listened to was Hate Yourself and it's one of my favorites, but it's just him calling that same girl that was leading him on a whore. He still can't figure out why she doesn't really want anything to do with him.