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Kendall Defoe

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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The Hill

Submitted to Contest #294

The sun was a hot stone in his eyes for a brief moment, even at this early point in the morning. He had just climbed up the small hill to the place where he was supposed to wait. It was always at this same time; always on a weekday. He was no longer new to this, but the light and the heat left him slightly dazed and sweaty at the same spot on the sidewalk where he would always have to wait. And here he was, waiting again for the exact same thing. After two weeks, he had some thoughts about all of this, even though he woul...

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The Tea Break

Submitted to Contest #294

“I never take sugar with my tea, Mary…” She had been saying the same thing for ages, but the tea set came with the sugar bowl and creamer, and she was always going to make sure that her friends knew this. The table in the backyard had all of the necessities Andrea would use as a guest (napkins, multiple spoons and forks, saucers).She knew that her friends would be there with one making a specific request, and Mary had the tray ready for them, and nothing that Andrea could say would prevent her from her little routine.“I know. But Aldous migh...

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Train Number 0ne

Submitted to Contest #293

The first problem was waking up in bed.It had been a beautiful morning while he waited in line for the bus. Will was expecting to take a very short nap before getting back to work. But he would also have to call them. That was the deal. Family is family, and we don’t get to choose them, do we? That was his thought as he put his knapsack on the floor, closed his eyes, and let the articulated city bus rock him gently into sleep in his seat.So, why was he in a bed?The bed was gently rocking as he woke up and looked around. It was the type that ...

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Light

Submitted to Contest #291

He could not believe how disorganized things were in their offices. From what he could tell after a short tour of the different areas on their floors, Claude thought that Hikari and Co. were used to just throwing everything everywhere at any time. They did have one system that worked: the garbage disposal. But even this was slowed down by the fact that there was only one set of plastic garbage cans on wheels. These were taken down to the dumpsters every other week so that the city could handle that mess.  It was almo...

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How the Man in the Room Found the Right Place and Nothing New Happened Now

“The room is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got here.”I wrote that down and I knew that I had to because I had my red pen that always went with the reporter’s pad that said, “Reporter’s Pad” right on the front. It is the same red colour as the pen and I know that I can make notes now even if this is very strange and I do not like this place and there is no carpet here and I wonder if I am going to be in trouble because I did not show up for lunch and I am not hungry so should I worry.“I don’t know why am here.”That is true that I do not know...

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Disaster Relief

“And that’s that.”I had to make sure the tea hit the table before he finished his sad story. I had all the deets I needed to figure out why he was so nervous, but there was always a little bit more to add to the mix.Michael… Michael, Michael, Michael… I had known him since elementary school and he was brought in as a new student I had to show around the school in grade two. I saw him attempt to play all kinds of sports – he had a strange obsession with volleyball – and talk to all kinds of people who wanted nothing to do with him. Those peop...

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5 x 5?

Submitted to Contest #286

1.     Patricia and the schoolyard:I first saw her at Our Lady of Perpetual Agony when we were both about begin grade one. Ms. Pappercock was a kind lady, and she looked upon me with some favour when she saw how well I could keep my handwriting within the lines of the notebooks she handed out. And that might have been the reason why she put Patricia next to me in the classroom after the first month passed. A lot of people thought this was odd, but I remembered that she organized the class according to the grades we r...

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Tracking

I’m really beginning to understand how unfair life can be.And I’m not old. I am so sick of hearing that. “Old technology.” “All too lo-fi.” “Something my uncle or grandfather would have used back in the day.” They never say the same thing about cars or even cameras. Give them a few decades, and they all become classics. A few of those same decades on me, and they want to put me in a landfill with all of my brothers and sisters.Yes, I am a videocassette recorder, or what you plebes call a “VCR”.You really don’t understand how embarrassing and...

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The Mountain

Submitted to Contest #285

From an abandoned tape recording:You might think I’m creepy, future people who find this, but I don’t know what’s gonna happen tomorrow. Everyone here is freaking out over Y2K, and I don’t trust anything connected to computers to save this info. I could write this down later – that’s a plan – so maybe this isn’t such a bad idea. And J. said she’d call me soon so that we could head up. But let me talk about what’s happening here.We are in Tokyo and we are panicking. I have never seen that many people worried about one thing at once: mana...

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

“Platform Number Four, now boarding.”He was a cynic, but there was nothing now that could possibly ruin his trip home. The plane that took him across a time zone had faced very little turbulence, and he knew that this was helping with his fear of heights. The therapist’s suggestion that he fly back was actually useful (better than that nonsense about opening up to people). He had a good flight with no alcohol necessary, and he even took an air-sickness bag as a memento (strange little collection he had now). No, he was simply one bus ride aw...

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May I Borrow Your Pen?

 “I’m sorry.”Michael had a very busy morning and was looking forward to the break. Always on the Monday with the big orders, and he did not want any of the new people handing the transactions, especially some of the new faces that he saw down in the warehouse. Didn’t anyone in human resources care as much about the vetting process as he did? They could laugh all they wanted to – blue collar bums, he called them – but one day this was seriously going to backfire on us and then...“I’m sorry.”At least he had time to get out of that grey ha...

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A Kind of Magic...

Submitted to Contest #281

Okay, this is really not my fault.I am now in a very different spot than I’m used to (buzz). And I really did not expect the screaming and the trip through the air like that (buzz buzz). So dark, too…But let me talk a little about myself and you might have a bit of sympathy about my plight.Buzz…Many years back (buzz), according to my manufacture date, I was put together in a factory in (buzz) a country that many of you read about online, and yet know so little about. It may seem strange that I can remember my (buzz) date of birth – such a st...

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Globe

Submitted to Contest #281

Please, please come in. You can put your coat on the stand by the door.Would you like some coffee or tea? I have a kettle that is electric and they tell me that things are better when life goes faster. I'm not sure.Okay, I was expecting you earlier, but that does not matter. I seem to have more than a day to finish everything before they pack up my life and forget about me.No, I don’t mean you. I called you for a reason.They are not taking everything, you know. I decided a long time ago to make sure that certain things would not just disappe...

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My Dinner with Android

Submitted to Contest #280

-Hello!-Hello… um, do we really need those hyphens? They seem pretty redundant…Okay, okay. I just thought that it would make things easier to trace if we wanted to keep a record of what we talked about.Forward thinking… Okay, let’s try something else.Like what?·        How about this?·        Okay, not bad. It is much clearer that way, and we can easily just go back by following the dots.·        We can connect them, as you...

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What I Did Before My Summer Vacation

Submitted to Contest #280

Was it all my fault? I saw her arm rise, bent and coming up fast, with the fingers tight in what looked like a claw more than a fist and her face was beyond tense. Like she knew what she had to do. I was happy about that because I thought that I deserved whatever she had to dish out, since I had been a dumbass for most of the year. She was only responding with anger to my mistakes, doing what I may have done (shoe and the other foot). At least we dated.           ...

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