Ken Coomes

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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“The Challenger” by Ken Coomes

Submitted to Contest #50

Sherry sat in the center lane of three, waiting for the traffic light to turn green, tapping her fingernails on the steering wheel of her 2020 Shelby GT500, Hermes. She named all her vehicles. Hermes, the Olympian God of many things including speed, was aptly named. She wasn’t about to call her car Nike, after the Greek Goddess of Speed, Strength, and Victory. The name fit, but Sherry couldn’t bear thinking of her car being named after a shoe, or a company that made shoes.  Looking to her left she saw a Toyota Prius-C, driven by an...

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“Is God Dead?” by Ken Coomes

Submitted to Contest #49

Noah was pleasantly surprised that the waiting room was empty. Not exactly empty - there were furniture and decor, just nobody else waiting. A large desk stood guard, the receptionist off in some other room. He noticed chairs like those in other waiting rooms he had visited, upholstered in a wide variety of solid colors. An orange couch with square arms, looking firm. All the seating looked adequately comfortable. Noah saw some old, well-used tables, each one sporting a larger than normal pile of magazines. There were no rugs softening the...

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Author bio

Retired Naval officer, retired engineer (Intel), retired CBI (certified business intermediary), retired CSM (certified scrum master) - just a retiring kind of fellow, living in the Pacific Northwest with my wife of nearly 38 years and near two of my four children. Author, speaker, TV host, game designer and lover of life.