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Joseph Thomas

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2025

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Geriatric

Submitted to Contest #303

I tipped back the fiasco, and the last bit of wine dribbled on my tongue. I set it on the edge of the kitchen counter. The saliva was drying along the rim of the mouth, and I took it to the bucket in the sink and dunked it in the bleach water. I was very tired and bored, and the wine had been good to drink. As I lifted the bottle back up I saw that the straw basket at the bottom was soaked, and I did not want to wipe the counter after it. I set it below the water again. I peeled the rubber gloves off my hands and threw them in too. I walked ...

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A Quatrain from Hammadi

Submitted to Contest #302

I drift, many a time I drift, always, more usually, maybe, towards a, well the, thing I had in mind at the time when my search began. It is at times, many sometimes, though, when my drifting dimples along near an actual thing; not my direct end, the thing I had begun my search for, but that thing where the smack of the earth greets the cusp of downed heaven; but it is very brief, and I am only drifting besides, I have not even shaved my aim down to the thing I was searching for. Though I suppose it was only a word I wanted the meaning of. “T...

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