Jack Conlan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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“Executive Man” by Jack Conlan

Submitted to Contest #244

Her whatever it was – her entanglement, if that was the word for it – had started innocently enough. She and Jacob had started chatting one night near the end of her shift. It had been a real crusher, multiple patients had coded, and everyone had been running wild all night. It had been blissfully quiet on the floor then, a hazy pre-dawn light was breaking through to the nurses’ area where she had been sitting when he walked up and started making small talk. He was tall and athletic if not classically handsome. Good looking, but he knew it. ...

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“Agua Clara ” by Jack Conlan

Submitted to Contest #243

The first calculation that told Alaina that something was unusual was trivial enough. A slight deviation from her regular routine. An anomaly. However, the anomaly – as she labeled it – was not something she considered an error. Each chamber of the Agua Clara Locks held three water basins which were filled and drained using the water from the Gatun Lake. The control of these water basins – and thus the control of the Agua Clara Locks – was assigned to Alaina. “It was a job she was born to do,” Javier had once told a group of men, “and no o...

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Author bio

I'm normally a crime fiction writer but I just love to write. I've not spent much time in the short story medium but what the hell, right?