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Jaz A

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2025

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The Beast, The Bull, The Man and The Minotaur

Jaz A

Submitted to Contest #322

Part One – The Beast Beneath the beast's large head was there scrawled a litany of dashes, some he’d carved with teeth, some with claws, and others with the sharpened bones of those who had challenged him. The markings did not indicate days, nor lives taken, skulls crushed, fibulas decimated, no – they spoke of a different sum; the weight of a dream. To any other beast, they were lines, but to that monster, they were grass. The beast had a thought, a stupid, naïve thought – the type only children ought to have; that if he covered the entire ...

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