J. H. Storbakken

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2022

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“Another Ballgame” by J. H. Storbakken

The feeling one gets when one is about to be published is manifold. It's like getting one's first tattoo.It cannot be described, but it can be channeled. One can, let's say, use it to write. One can channel the excitement into the act of, for example, writing professional book reviews.Where are we to go from here? Are we going to watch your dreams drown with the rest of the struggling writers and poets of the world, or are we going to do something crazy like start our own YouTube channel to bring in som...

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“Humpetty” by J. H. Storbakken

Submitted to Contest #155

For the unnamed man whose body was unable to be revived after he jumped from Órgiva's Rio Chico bridge the morning of July 18th, 2022-and for Ernest Miller Hemingway

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“The Worm and the Butterfly” by J. H. Storbakken

Submitted to Contest #152

It was an act of pure catharsis to hear his subterranean voice for the first time. It was the sound and the nectar of an aftermath. It was simultaneously loud, like the vibrance of a lotus, a maelstrom's voice, and melancholy and muted, like the sound of a drowned earthworm floating in a small puddle under a huge rainbow; it was chemist's voice, in its intonation not unlike the faux-nocturnal and unnatural sound a city makes outside the windows of an apartment building as, perhaps, a portrait painter, let's say, coughing up on the eighth ...

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“Responsive Treatment” by J. H. Storbakken

Submitted to Contest #142

LEFT ON 4TH, LEFT ON SPRING, RIGHT ON 2ND. IT'S ON YOUR LEFT, BABY.For "Hank" Henry Charles Bukowski -and for the old, gray courthouse security guard who, not too long ago, recommended his legend to meEvery library holds its secrets, and like some misunderstood people, some unfortunate libraries take theirs to the grave.A sunny day it was, the day a security guard at the local courthouse recommended a book to me, or should I say,...

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Author bio

J. H lives in the sunny countryside with his wife and baby, where he writes imaginative stories in his free time. J. H. dearly hopes all writers and poets follow their dreams and go after what's in their heart without a second thought.