Menu

Prompts

Directory Contests Magazine FAQ

Apps

reedsymarketplace

Hire professionals for your project

reedsyblog

Advice, insights and news

reedsylearning

Online publishing courses

reedsylive

Free publishing webinars

reedsydiscovery

Launch your book in style

Bestseller Podcast Book Cover Art Success Stories

Tools

Book Promotion Sites Book Review Blogs Booktube Channel Guide Book Title Generator Character Name Generator Independent Publishers Literary Agents Literary Magazines Pen Name Generator Plot Generator Publishers Directory Short Story Ideas Writing Contests Writing Exercises Writing Scholarships

Menu

Prompts

Contests

Stories

Blog

Directory

Contests

Magazine

FAQ

Ian MacVicar

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

Stories (4)

Comments

Library

3 Followers

3 Following

4 Stories

75 karma pts

?

Coincidence?

Ian MacVicar

Submitted to Contest #103

Falling down a hill makes for rather unusual teatime conversation. I was seated in the living room with my mother and her best friend Harriett recounting my teenage version of “How I spent my summer holidays.” I had just returned from spending the summer on a mountain climbing course in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. After the usual rhapsodic praise for the natural beauty of the area, Harriett asked me what my strongest memory from the summer was. I paused, debating whether to tell the truth. The conversation got even odder bef...

9 likes

MICE

Ian MacVicar

Submitted to Contest #74

The last 10 days of my career as a CIA Case Officer were among the most fulfilling of my life - professionally rewarding, filled with adrenaline-charged excitement, and even a budding romance. Ultimately, these halcyon days ended in the most disappointing and heart-breaking way possible. I wish that I could turn back time, but time no longer means much where I am now. These recollections haunt me still, whether they last 10 seconds, 10 days, or even 10 years…but their duration is immaterial now. As is often the case, the relationship...

6 likes

The Size of the Dog

Ian MacVicar

Submitted to Contest #66

The 800-metre race is possibly the most intense competition in track and field. Part sprint, part endurance race, this distance taxes the body, bone, lungs, and the will every step of the way. This is really true in the last 400 metre lap when you body is running on empty, and especially in the last 200 metre sprint to the tape when you often have nothing left but the will to win. I had trained for track virtually my entire school career, and now as a college senior, I was on the verge of being selected for the Canadian National Olympic T...

9 likes

My First Halloween as a Ghost

Ian MacVicar

Submitted to Contest #65

No one is more surprised than I am to be telling the story of my first (and only) Halloween as a ghost. I really did not expect to have this dubious honour until much, much later in (my past) life. I contracted COVID-19"Who knows where?" It may have happened at the “small neighbourhood gathering” of 20 people at school year end, or possibly in the grocery store in early July when someone behind me in line sn...

8 likes