Hugh Bezemer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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“Betting Against the Storm” by Hugh Bezemer

Submitted to Contest #288

Piotr gripped his cheap aluminum doorknob, shaped like an eagle’s claw and painted to resemble weathered bronze. Just as he was about to turn it, he realized he wouldn’t need the all-weather coat he’d arrived in. He turned back into his hotel room, shrugged off the snug relic of where he’d come from, and hung it on the rail in his makeshift lodgings. He had a fleeting thought: if only he had a rail of widgets from which he could hang these theft-proof coat hangers, he’d never have to waste time in home stores again. It wasn’t a profound obse...

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“Eternity and the Kettle Song” by Hugh Bezemer

Submitted to Contest #287

I sometimes visit a perfect recollection of that night. An echo, embossed by my years of study and still remembered by the atoms of my aging body. My instinct, of course, as I lifted my head from the damp pillow into the deep silence of my childhood bedroom, darkened by blackout blinds, was to brace for the sudden spike in heart rate, loneliness and the inexorable dread that had been waking me since I had moved back into my parents’ house. On that night, the 30th of January 2025, seven minutes and 43 seconds passed before I realised that my ...

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