Jay Duquette

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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“The Flu” by Jay Duquette

Submitted to Contest #125

Whatever the final death count, the emaciated, delirious man tied to a rusty metal bed in a small sparse boarding house room would never know and had he known, would not have cared so much, except for the fact that he had somehow contracted the illness. Fear was all he felt once the realization set in that he would likely perish. Even that fact quickly deserted him, as his terrified mind collapsed in a boiling fever. The subsequent fevered screaming and wild thrashing was simply his body’s instinctive and extremely agitated immune response t...

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“Jaak” by Jay Duquette

Submitted to Contest #124

His grief, at its most potent, rose at dusk. It was as unending and as deep as the long rainforest night that skulked dark and ravenousness beyond his crumbling stone wall. Jaak sat slumped, slowly sipping rum, watching insects swirl around a hanging kerosene lantern. The bugs streamed out of the black void in vast numbers whirling in a dense chaotic circle around the weak yellow light. Many of the more determined creatures flew directly into the flame burning brightly, for a microsecond glowing like shooting stars, exploding into eternity....

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