Josh Rutherford

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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“Contact” by Josh Rutherford

Submitted to Contest #59

For a lot of people, grief is one overwhelming wave that crashes through their lives and drags them out into an ocean of hopelessness. For me, it was more like a gentle tide repeatedly lapping at the shores of my sanity until it eventually eroded the foundations of who I was. Depression, they called it. But today I would finally be rid of it. By the time the sun had trudged breathlessly to its zenith, the plaza below was a buzz of activity. A chorus of overlapping conversations filled the air, performed by a choir of...

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“Burnt Filaments” by Josh Rutherford

Submitted to Contest #58

11pm If the eyes are the windows the soul, I was looking at two shattered panes of glass. I’d been told that his eyes were electric-blue, though the fuses seemed to have been removed from them. The only electric-blue that mattered now was the 200 volts keeping his life support machine on. The basement was cold in every sense of the word. A ceiling of fluorescent strip lights offered a garish glow to the clinical, white room below. The soft hum the lights gave off was accompanied only by the metronomic beeping of the heartrate monitor....

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