Keba Ghardt

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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3 Stories

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“Out of Duck” by Keba Ghardt

Submitted to Contest #256

"Here we are, Wilson," said Spalding. "104 and 103. I'll hold your Pepsi." Wilson handed over the drink and sucked in his gut as he sidled down the seats. He'd put off buying a new belt, unwilling to make that concession to his age, but he'd already punched two new holes in the leather, and his belly simply poured out over the top. "I really appreciate this, Mr. Spalding, and please tell Mr. Frisk I do, too. S'posed to be one hell of a game." "It is." No such gut-sucking for Spalding, even though he looked a couple years older. He was one of...

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“Isn't That How They Caught Al Capone?” by Keba Ghardt

Submitted to Contest #255

"Shit!" Clutching her hands into trembling claws of suppressed rage, Veronica forced herself to exhale through clenched teeth. The little busy wheel on the screen was mocking her, taunting her, as not a goddamn thing happened on the page. "Come on, already!" Her voice was raw and ragged from strangled snarls and shrieks, little red half-moon divots on her fists from teeth and fingernails. She wanted to tear her hair out, or punch a wall, or rip the world to shreds, but she was forced to wait, wild eyes bulging, as the slowest browser in hist...

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“Tit for Tat” by Keba Ghardt

Submitted to Contest #255

"Take a look at this." Peter knew, on some level, that everyone looked at smut, only nobody talked about it. He knew that his friend James, who was leering at him in the lamplight, had leered this way at probably every other man in town while Peter was working up the courage to make a transaction. But nothing could banish the fear that, as soon as Peter exchanged his penny for a lewd photograph, the sheriff would burst in on him for illegal possession of pornography. James held out a photograph. He had the only camera in town, officially as ...

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