J P Briden

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

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“Ashes to Ashes” by J P Briden

Submitted to Contest #65

I am a traditionalist. For me, Halloween is not about candy, and it is most certainly not about dressing up as a princess. No. Halloween is, and always has been, the night of the year where the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest; stretched so thin that the souls of the dead may, during the darkest hours, rise from their graves to torment the living. That’s how I always imagined it when I was alive, and I can hardly tell you how excited I was to experience my first Halloween, now that I’m dead. Things didn’t...

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“Henry” by J P Briden

Submitted to Contest #64

Looking back, I should have known that something was not quite right. The family seemed pleasant enough, warm, and full of life, but there was something about the way they looked at me, which made me uneasy. The grandmother, in particular, with her faded green eyes, gazed upon me with an odd mixture of tenderness and sadness. It was the kind of sadness that only the elderly can summon, a sadness decades in the making. My arrival at the manor house was as much a surprise to me as it was to them. I had been sleeping soundly when awoken by a gr...

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