Jed Cope

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

Stories (23)

23 Stories

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“Enough is Enough” by Jed Cope

It was all going so well. Better than I could ever have dreamed of, you know? I had found my unicorn at the end of the rainbow and my life was right on course. I knew it couldn’t last. Nothing lasts forever, I know that much, but just throw me a bone here. Give me more than that fleeting glimpse of how it should be! I deserved more. I certainly put the work in for it. From as far back as I...

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“Fault Lines” by Jed Cope

“It’s all my fault,” she says into her lap. “No it isn’t!” he protests, instantly regretting his reaction, he lowers his voice and says more gently, “it’s not your fault. She did this. Not you.” “It takes two, Archie,” she raises her head for a heartbeat and then lowers it back to her lap, her hands moving around each other in a display of her awkwardness in this situation. He looks at tho...

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“Home” by Jed Cope

Where I come from, people don’t treat you nice. That’s my abiding memory of where I come from. That and… Well, I wasn’t always like this, you know? I try hard, but there I am going around and around in circles. Not all of the time, but sometimes it just kicks in and there I am, doing my thing. Only the thing I am doing isn’t my thing. It’s their thi...

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“Homecoming” by Jed Cope

Where do you go when you have nowhere else left to go? I went home. Not to the place that I had most recently made my home, that place had failed on one of the measures of a home. It was no longer safe. So, I made my way back to the place I grew up. They said you should never go back. I’m not sure who they were and what the premise of this advice was. You do...

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“Gone” by Jed Cope

You’ll never be content The note is there on my bedside table when I awake. I have awoken to an empty bed in a room that holds some familiarity, but little comfort, and I turn to see the note. The note is leaning casually against an untouched glass of water and I can read it from where I lay. You’ll never be content That is all that it say...

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“Dish of the Day” by Jed Cope

“I don’t know what to have,” said Laura. “Is that usual for you?” asked Brad, peering over his menu at her. Laura lowered her menu further and smiled, “none of this is usual, is it?” Brad smiled at her, “depends how you look at it doesn’t it?” “OK,” she said, “it’s usual for you.” Brad shrugged, she was wrong, but he didn’t want to dissuade h...

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“Ten” by Jed Cope

I was ten when I knew for sure. I was ten when the world opened up to me and I saw it for what it was. That was a frightening moment. I can still feel that fear when I cast my mind back. This was one of those big moments in a person’s history which has a subtitle in large capitals… YOU CANNOT TAKE IT BACK Ten years old and I understood that I was on my own, and wor...

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“One Last Time” by Jed Cope

“I loved you, you know,” I said this quietly, I said it too quietly for her to hear. Or so I thought. She smiled at me and my heart lurched in my chest. It went for a leap, but then she spoke and then I knew she wasn’t smiling because of what I had said. It was only a smile. Not quite random, but it may as well have been. “Did you say something?” I returned...

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“Dry” by Jed Cope

The sun washes through the land from the moment it opens its uncaring eye, intensifying and flexing its might as the day goes on. For the goliath of fire, the day is barely the blink of an eye, for the tiny miracles on the surface of the planet who rely upon that ball of fire for their very existence, it is interminable. The magnifying glass of this endless Summer burns the land and the little boy holding...

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“Drink” by Jed Cope

Screaming. A pitch so high it rattles my eyes and rabbit punches my brain. My hands are at my temples and I don’t know how they got there. Breathe. You’ve got to breathe. That’s it. My eyes settle and I can see again. I scan around the room and some of the panic leaks out of me. The kettle. ...

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“Fetch” by Jed Cope

Malsarry does not stir as I gaze upon her prone form. There is not a mark upon her, and yet she is grievously injured. I know this much, but beyond that my mind is in fog. She may as well be a statue of marble atop a sarcophagus. I clench my fists and ride out the storm of anger that has gripped me as I stand by my love. I will not allow this! There is something to be done, and I will be the one t...

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“Respite” by Jed Cope

Ignorance is bliss, or so they say. The problem with that saying is that you don’t get to choose, not when your eyes have been open to your situation or your predicament. Once you know, there isn’t any going back. Would I want to go back? No, I wouldn’t go back and lose the one thing that counts in this gods forsaken place. She’s given me something I never knew existed, no...

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“Credits and Debits” by Jed Cope

Well blow me! Verner ended his visit and took the slow walk away. It struck him for the very first time in his mundane and miserable life that he did the self-same thing at communion when he was a boy. Head down and quiet. Strange thing to do when you were supposed to be communing with people, but that was how it was done back then, or if it wasn’t then no one batted an eyelid when he acted like ...

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“Harmless” by Jed Cope

Harmless is the most dangerous word going. I know that now. The problem is that we don’t think! If an alien came down and examined one of us they would see all of our potential. They would marvel at the walking miracles that we undoubtedly are. Then they would conclude that we were a danger to ourselves and everything we encounter because we wilfully squander our potentia...

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“The Judas Bird” by Jed Cope

The Judas bird is a fish. But you wouldn’t know that. Few people do. The only reason I know of the Judas bird is that I have more money than everyone else does. I have so much money that my money makes more money than almost anyone else has on the planet, so I get to know things that other people don’t and I get to do things that other people don’t. The natural question people hav...

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Author bio

Author of 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