Jed Cope

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

Stories (53)

53 Stories

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“Pushing It” by Jed Cope

It’s that time again. Sooner or later, it always comes to this. Unless of course, we are saved from all this nonsense by divine, or cosmic intervention. Not this time though, that was never going to be in the script. The way this works is that there is an inevitable build up to this show down. Good versus bad, us against them. We sort the te...

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“When Darkness Falls” by Jed Cope

“We are all of us, afraid of the dark” he says it sadly, as though he’s delivering a terminal diagnosis, and in a way, he is. “When we’re kids, yeah,” snorts Philips. Now he’s lazily shaking his head with an economy that makes it all the more striking, “we still are. Every last one of us.” “How do you work that one out?” says Philips, disdain dripping from his words, disdai...

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“Contrary” by Jed Cope

“I’ve not had enough! You’ve not had your fun yet! You absolutely must keep me imprisoned here!” I laugh and that laughter is joyful and it is merry. Even my laughter? No! It is not my laughter. Inside I am wailing and gnashing my teeth and crying out for a release from this hell, but increasingly I feel those words that are not my own, the very opp...

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“Upon Reflection” by Jed Cope

“We’re just too different.” I stand there and watch his lips move and I hear the words, but the words don’t come from his mouth, they come from mine. I stand there and I stare into those eyes of his. We remain like that for the longest of times and then I cry. And so does he. Eventually, I shake myself and splash cold water onto my face and ...

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“Fade Away” by Jed Cope

“I hate you!” Poppy spat the words out at her mother. If she had been a foot closer she would have lashed out with her hand too. She wanted to hurt her mother. Her mother deserved it. The words were said and then she was stomping off up the stairs to her bedroom. Poppy had never said those three little words before. Those words were a culmination of a whole host of other wo...

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“For Real” by Jed Cope

“How did you get in here?” She scowled and looked quite annoyed. “No really, you shouldn’t be in here, you know that right?” She blasted out a jet of air and put her hands on her hips in something approximating consternation. I looked around me as though this was going to present me with an out, or rather an idea of how she managed to get in here.

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“Taking it Back” by Jed Cope

“Let’s go for a walk.” The words tumble out of my mouth. I’ve said them a thousand times, but this time it’s different. I am different. Everything is different and the world will never be the same again. He looks at me and time stands still. I wonder what is going through that mind of his. There was a time, when he was small and the world turned in a differ...

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“You Are Here” by Jed Cope

“I’m forty two!” “What has that got to do with it?” I stare at her face and I will her to understand, to at least try to understand. My eyes are upon her face, but I don’t see it. They bore into her. Searching for her essence, looking for something that resembles hope. I am here, and yet I am not. She sees something that is not me. She sees something unreal. I wond...

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“Dark Magic” by Jed Cope

Bad luck. She tells me it was luck, that I had some luck and my luck was bad. “It was not your fault,” she tells me this like it was something that happened in the past. A blip. The universe hiccupped and I suffered as a result. She’s wrong. They all are. The words in my head remind me of that. She’s wrong.

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“Lost Property” by Jed Cope

The pretty tune of dread rings out, impossibly loud. So loud in the confined space of the corridor that I cringe in an attempt to make myself smaller, unseen. Those few discordant notes pierce the ominous silence and they announce the beginning of my end. The ripples of those sounds send me reeling and I clutch my neck. I clutch my neck knowing that everything has changed.<...

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“Time to Change” by Jed Cope

Change is easy when you think about it. Change is easy to talk about. Change is always easier said than done. Tim sat at the edge of his lonely bed and resolved to change yet again. This was not the first time and he had this sinking feeling even as he grit his teeth and promised himself and the world that this time would be different, this time he would change.

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“The Longest Night” by Jed Cope

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The song plays in the bar and I shake my head, “no, it’s not,” I whisper to myself. We are in the midst of Winter and the Festive Season draws nigh. The Winter Festival is ancient. Older even than I. These fragile and transitory beings that mill about me, in a frenzy of short lived lives, like to pretend thing are not as th...

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“Express Your Self” by Jed Cope

I always thought that it was me. I still do. Forty years on, I know I still do. That was bad once, then I managed to make it work. I managed to take that responsibility and make myself responsible for my life, and I moved on. Only I didn’t quite manage to move on, not completely. I sit here right now and nothing has changed. Not really it ha...

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“Fragments” by Jed Cope

I am… Sod it! I’m… How old am I? I know I’m not very old, not very old at all. I also know that this… …should… …not… …be… HAPPENING TO ME! It’s come early to me. How lucky am I? I jumped the queue and now I get to fall apart little by little, and bit by bit befor...

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“Can You Feel The Magic?” by Jed Cope

All book shops are magical. This is an incontrovertible fact that is often discarded in a ditch, on the road to ignorance. Books contain worlds. Books contain life, but not always as we know it. They also contain a whole lot of stuff as yet undiscovered, even by the authors who vomited the words down on the pages in a frenzied fit of creativity that possessed them for as long as it took for the story to c...

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Author bio

Author of over twenty novels. Please look me up on Amazon and Facebook. Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B08VJD4VBT?_encoding=UTF8&node=368165031&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=review-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader My Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jedcopeauthor