J Sagar

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

Stories (4)

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β€œThe true definition of disaster” by J Sagar

Submitted to Contest #90

It could have been worse.The monstrous sea waves lash against flimsy beach houses every day. Several of them have already been washed away. There’s no telling which one’s going to go down next. We were warned not to build our houses so close to the sea; not before we’ve reversed the climate change at least. We ignored the warning, of course. The sea level kept rising, but we did not budge. Nobody likes to walk in knee-deep salty water day in and day out. But nobody likes to admit they were wrong either.We can’t take out our cars, only kayaks...

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β€œ A fight for death ” by J Sagar

Submitted to Contest #89

General Mateo was killing it. Killing them all, to be precise. Thirteen tall brutes with shaved heads came rushing toward him from the front. The two behind him seemed to be readying for an ambush. General Mateo couldn’t care less. He raised his sword high in the air and plunged it into the soil. Thick, dazzling beams of light shot out of the ground and annihilated all fifteen of them. Two enormous ones attacked him with spears. Futile, he muttered. He danced about them a little and then, once again, raised his sword high in the air and plun...

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β€œInterviewing a trickster” by J Sagar

Submitted to Contest #87

Below you'll find an excerpt from an interview by the editor-in-chief of Times Weekly, Howard Nash, with the Trickster. Our transcriptionist has tried to make sure that every word uttered during the interview has been transcribed accurately. Nonetheless, we apologize in advance for any discrepancies that might have crept in. Thank you for your co-operation.Howard : Mr. Trickster, what would you say makes you so successful in tricking people?Trickster: Well, if I told you I have three friends: Potrino Stag, Antoni Stag, and Toni F. Caden, how...

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β€œEliminate Andrew Higgs” by J Sagar

Submitted to Contest #27

Orders are orders. You have to follow them. If the sergeant asks you to kill a man, you kill him. No ifs and buts. That is how I was raised. You are not to question your superiors no matter what they ask you to do. My father lived by that rule and I was going to prove that the apple hadn’t fallen too far from the tree. In my line of work, I had seen a lot of folks lose their lives merely on account of having failed to do what was asked of them. Was it not, then, obvious that I, in order to avoid suffering a similar fate, was to carry out ord...

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Author bio

J Sagar is a story-[lover, writer, enthusiast, reader], and a programmer. Some of his favorite authors are P. G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander McCall Smith, Thorne Smith, Susan Cain, A. A. Milne, Maurice Leblanc, and Phillip Gulley. πƒπžπ₯𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐒𝐞𝐬: - A little too much - Brewing a secret - The price of reticence - A window forever - An inconvenient attachment - An agreeable manifestation - The Subterfuge 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐬: -Leave it to Psmith (P. G. Wodehouse) -Topper takes a trip (Thorne Smith) -The department of sensitive crimes (Alexander McCall Smith) -ArsΓ¨ne Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Maurice Leblanc) -A gathering in hope (Phillip Gulley) -Twisted: The Collected Short Stories(Jefferey Deaver)