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Joseph Wilbur

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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Down With The Sickness

Submitted to Contest #272

It’s happening again. I can feel him again. I’ve even started seeing him in the mirror again. I’m standing there in a steamy bathroom staring at my reflection. A flash of light revealing my face, twisted and deformed. It’s gone again before my eyes register the change. This is not the first time I’ve seen this. Before it was always in a dream. Now I am completely awake. “What is wrong with you” I say to the mirror, half expecting the mirror me to answer. But he just looks back dumbfounded and weary. Eventually I am able to pull myself ...

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Snow Dragon

Submitted to Contest #227

He hated the cold. It always brought out the worst in him. The way it chilled him to the bones no matter how many layers he piled on. The way it crept into the corners of his home even with a roaring fire. It was the jilted lover flaunting her success after leaving him by shoving it in his face whenever she saw him. It made him hate to leave his cabin for even the most basics of necessity. Like fire wood. Fire was the gluttonous demon that constantly needed to be fed. Without fire the cold became stronger and more oppressive. He hated ...

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The Postal Worker

Submitted to Contest #32

Peter is a man with a secret. To all appearances he is an average man. Average height, average weight, average hair, average family. He wakes up in his average home and drives his average car to his average job at the post office. He delivers mail to average neighborhoods to other average people living out their average lives. But Peter is far from average. If he wanted, he could have an above average life. For P...

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