Ian McKerracher

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“The Epistle of Paul to the Present Church” by Ian McKerracher

Submitted to Contest #212

The Epistle of Paul to the Present Church Chapter 1 1.     Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle by the will of God and separated according to the effective working of His power amongst the Gentiles  2.     scattered throughout the world, to bear witness of the grace and love of the Father rev...

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“The Tardy Advocate Chapter 1” by Ian McKerracher

Submitted to Contest #44

What is this place!?           The room was enormous, but John couldn’t know that by looking at it for it was filled with a deep dusk that defied registration on his senses. His eyes could not penetrate through this … stuff. Neither could listening for echoes be used to discern the largeness of the room because there were not any of those. None of the normal ways of knowing were ready to volunteer any information beyond the bare minimums of perception and any way of pushin...

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“So Far, Yet So Near” by Ian McKerracher

Submitted to Contest #43

   The pancake-shaped spacecraft careened to a stop, up against an uneven hump in the middle of a stretch of featureless fall tundra of a foreign planet. Blag finally let his long-held breath out in a sigh of utter relief. It had been a timeless, harrowing descent to the planet with no sure outcome at the end. It was fortunate for Blag that this particular planet had been sensed by the few instruments left functional when the warning lights were the only illumination left in the cockpit af...

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“THE SAINTS” by Ian McKerracher

Submitted to Contest #33

The saints began to trickle in. There was Old Mrs. Robinson, a widow from two years into a sweet marriage but living alone for the last 47 years. She was making tea and coffee. Peter Frampton (no relation) had come early and had helped set up the chairs to the rented community hall, ostensibly for a social gathering. Anthony Fresco, a middle-aged bachelor and old-school gentleman was greeting everyone at the door with a big smile and overwhelming gestures of bowing and addressing the members of the cong...

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