James Beach

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Familiar Hands” by James Beach

Submitted to Contest #256

He went down to one knee and held on tight to himself to keep from slipping away. There was no noise from the crowd, only his own breathing and the high ringing in his ears. The darkness crept in at the edges of his vision. After two deep breaths he stood up, and in doing so he tasted the metal in his mouth and he knew his nose was broken. The air wasn’t getting through so he blew it out all at once to clear the blockage. It was a sharp pain and the blood spattered onto his chest and shorts, but it did not help his breathing.Judging him stea...

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“On The Day” by James Beach

Submitted to Contest #255

A swallow flitted by just overhead and snatched me up from the daze I had fallen into. I sat on the balcony of my apartment and worked on the last of a fiction story for a serial job in the paper about a man who had shot himself and lived, the true account of which I had come across in an old medical journal, and I was having a dreadful time with the ending. That the whole damn piece was a load of rot and no ending in the world could make it hold water crept persistently into mind, and I knew it was time to put it up for the day, deadli...

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