James DeMaio

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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4 Stories

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“Materialized Threesome” by James DeMaio

Submitted to Contest #258

There must be millions of unexplained pictures. The “dark knight satellite” stands out in my mind. It looks a lot like Batman, but Batman never flew in outer space, or orbited the earth. Then there’s the very old and spooky picture of a female image on a staircase in a large, old home. I’ve seen the picture many times, and normally there’s some kind of story about the image, but it’s all supposition. The most interesting ones to me are of “skinwalkers”, which are supposedly humans transfixing themselve...

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“Decompression” by James DeMaio

Submitted to Contest #258

I was a science teacher for four years at a charter school in Philadelphia during the late 2000s. As I look back on it I feel like the job was a complete failure, because I never was able to control the classroom. I envied other teachers who seemed to be having a better time in their careers. One “old head” of a math teacher on the first floor had scores of snapshots of his students covering his whiteboard, along with birthday wishes. Another teacher took her students skiing, and another was the school’s lacrosse coa...

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“the 3.0 GPA” by James DeMaio

Submitted to Contest #257

Life is pretty short. And in the brevity and idiocy of youth, decisions are made which can have only the direst of consequences. Ideas and ideations that start with the most innocent of desires can have unrelenting and painful ends. In my younger years I spent hours reading a medical encyclopedia at my grandparents’ house. I learned about heart disease, hives, sexually transmitted diseases and types of bone breaks. Later on, I suffered an epileptic seizure which turned me into a patient. I had a spinal tap. I had to take two EEG tests, compl...

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“Fly On, Granddaughter!” by James DeMaio

Submitted to Contest #256

Rosemarie Blatter spent her long days working for a budding pharmaceutical company, which was in the final stages of getting its narcolepsy medication approved by the FDA. Her job was to enter investigators' data provided to her by the CRA's into a database. The drug study had gone on for over five years, with Rosemarie having gotten hired as a nascent Research Assistant close to the end of the drug study. At first, she had worked alongside a more experienced RA, but then that person was prom...

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