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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021
Submitted to Contest #127
The Transformation of Rupert Sweet a short story by John Simes ‘Snow blanketed the landscape, it muffled sound and hid the roads.’ Rupert Sweet stared bleakly at the sentence. Same old crap. Of course, the sodding snow muffled sound and hid the sodding roads. What else would it sodding well do? Always the same. Amanda Tempest (aka Lavinia Stoate) always started her nauseatingly sanctimonious so-called novels with the same kind of opening sentence. If it wasn't snow, it would be a row of benighted willow trees, tossing their branches ...
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