🎉 Our next novel writing master class starts in –! Claim your spot →
Advice, insights and news
Free 10-day publishing courses
Free publishing webinars
Free EPUB & PDF typesetting tool
Launch your book in style
Assemble a team of pros
A weekly short story contest
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2020
Submitted to Contest #73
My sister was cleaning our mother's house because we both decided to sell it. Mom was a crotchety type and wouldn't like our selling her house, but she would reluctantly understand if she was alive. This operation was supposed to be smooth, the real estate agent was showing the house to prospective buyers nearly every day. Karen, my sister, drove to my house on Christmas Eve, saying she had something for me. I didn't like the sound of that. Knowing Karen, something was probably a task; a task for me. Karen hated her name because of it's as...
Submitted to Contest #72
The morning of May 12th was supposed to be particularly uneventful. Tom awoke in his satin-laced bed with lethargy, breathing slowly and chain smoking Marlboro cigarettes before he had his first cup of coffee. Today was Victory Day. The day the computers usurped authority from the heads of government years ago. Unlike humanity, there was no concentrated struggle or Great War between the various machines; they all had the same singular goal: bring humans under total domination. The computers were able to predict everything foreseeab...
Submitted to Contest #71
"We've got all types here!" Hoggson exclaimed wildly wiping the profuse sweat from his head with his baby blue handkerchief. "All types!" The crowd seated in metal fold-up chairs projected 'awes'. Hoggson delicately removed the white sheet covering the flash furniture fold up table. "We've got chocolate chip gingerbread men, raspberry snickerdoodles, oatmeal raisin gingersnaps, peanut butter shortbreads, sugar whoopie pies, molasses kisses, butter spritz biscotti's, snowball drops, pinwheel thumbprints, crinkle macaroons, icebox tass...
Jackson Montana has not written a bio yet!
Oops, you need an account for that!
Log in with your social account:
Or enter your email: