Jamus Hanscom

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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“We Had All Made It” by Jamus Hanscom

Submitted to Contest #163

*****************Trigger Warning Talk of suicide and combat Trigger Warning *************** Veterans Crisis Line https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/ Help Resources for PTSD https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/ Rumors had started to trickle in to the barracks. Someone had died. They had been murdered. No, it was an accident. Someone was dead though, that was for sure. Many of us had planned on going into town a little later as usual. Instead a miasma of nervousness had infected the air, and many of us were trying to cure it with beer....

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“First Date” by Jamus Hanscom

Submitted to Contest #162

“I make the greatest grilled cheese you have ever tasted.” “You think to seduce me with a grilled cheese sandwich?” “First of all, I said the greatest grilled cheese you have ever tasted. Secondly, why are you assuming I would be seducing you, rather than the other way around? I don't typically sleep with someone on a first date.” He smiles as he says this, and it gives me a little shiver. I like his confidence and the way he says it, not cocky but with a note of challenge. He lights the burner on the range and moves a cast iron over to i...

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Author bio

Army Veteran. Native Mainer. Liberal. Writer. Maybe someone will like what I write. Maybe it will make someone smile. Maybe it will make someone laugh. Maybe it will make someone cry.