Josef De Cartelle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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“History Repeats (and Sometimes It's Great)” by Josef De Cartelle

Submitted to Contest #236

As a child, and as with most children, I was very curious. And perhaps within a fraction of that—maybe not so big but not so small either—were children like me, who had their curiosities drawn to books and stories. The story in particular was of William Wallace, and the book which sparked my curiosity for it was of the same name. It was something my father picked up at a book fair for reasons I never really did ask about. This led to my father introducing me to a video game, where I could relive not only some of the glorious exploits of Wall...

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“From A Far Away Time” by Josef De Cartelle

At some point in one’s life, every day becomes a near-continuous routine. Wake up, do what sustains you, do what sustains this routine, and rest up for the next day to do it all over again until the weekend. Deviations can be few and far between—sometimes even unwelcome, as humans are creatures of habit and dislike disruptions of the familiar, no matter how mundane. Part of Aina’s routine was to have these thoughts invade her mind whenever she was at her loneliest and quietest: typically on the last night of a weekend, just before the dawn o...

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Curiosity and confusion, in convenient human form. Contains a dartboard in brain that dictates most actions, and a virtual storage bin of unseen drafts and unused fragments.