Kade Baker

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“The Driver” by Kade Baker

Submitted to Contest #212

I suppose it all started a couple years ago, around the beginning of August. It seems like a long time ago, when I discuss the matter with my husband, Dennis. Back then I wasn’t married, and I was very lonely. I recall early in the morning, finding the first of the letters slid carefully and precisely halfway through my front door letter box. Unlike the usual postie who fires my envelopes through the plate like a change...

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“Getting Over It” by Kade Baker

Submitted to Contest #206

Jolting claps of flame, thunder on the brain. Sinewed synapses writhing, electric tentacles in the dark. Pulsing jellyfish to a tube worm’s feather, a consuming mycelium on a decaying carcass. That sudden realisation of the mess you’re in, you know the sort. A twisting, wrenching, churning sinkhole inside that could swallow life itself. You can’t leave here, you know that. Act natural. Are you sitting u...

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“The Spillway” by Kade Baker

Submitted to Contest #186

“I didn’t think he’d actually do it.” “This is bad. This is so very bad.” “What’re we going to do?” “We’ll be in so much trouble, forever.” “We? You told him to! You said he was a pussy if he didn’t.” “God, I wasn’t serious. I didn’t mean it.” “There’s no way anyone could make that jump, Ash. Even an athlete wo...

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“Frequency” by Kade Baker

Submitted to Contest #184

The curved rockers snap clean from the hooves under the pressure of her weight. The rocking horse Dad built for her when she was only three years old finally gave way. It was no surprise; Sophie had been truly pushing it to the limit recently. Dad might be upset with her, even though Horsey had been coming up to five years and didn’t owe her anything. She gets up from the hard floor and inspects ...

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Author bio

Owner of Red Sky At Write, The Poetry Site!