Joey Curtis

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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“The Beast Inside” by Joey Curtis

Submitted to Contest #263

    Diego is a small, scrawny child. The rest of his year five class are intent on making his tough life even more of a struggle than it needs to be. Lunchtimes never involve lunch because, most days, his dad can’t afford to give him money. On the days where they scrape together enough, some of the less scrawny children would decide to have two lunches. Over the years of constant bullying, Diego had decided on two things. The first is that children are only who they are because of their parents (big, mean kids have big, m...

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“He got them back” by Joey Curtis

Submitted to Contest #261

 “For the final time, I would now like to hear the defendant’s alibis for each and every one of these murders.” I suck a sharp breath in as a cold fear grasps hold of me. The defendant. Steven Gunnarson. Me. An indistinct, blue-eyed, blonde haired middle-aged man. Pretty much the spitting image of half of Iceland, which is exactly what my job requires. Seven children from my small, Icelandic town, Selfoss, were found dead; one on each day of last week. Since the overpopulation of mainland Europe decimated the international trade industr...

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I am a young writer who wants to learn from others on this platform. I am experimenting to fing my genre of writing.