Kevin Roller

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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“While You Were Plotting” by Kevin Roller

Don't you have anything better to do? his brother asked.Sam Roebuck smiled. Not at the moment, he thought back. But you seem rather busy at the moment.Not everyone can swill whiskey and idly write all day, his twin brother, Liam Roebuck, thought as he entered the warehouse. Triple homicides don't solve themselves.And best sellers that pay for the lake house don't write themselves, either, Sam retorted. Now shut up and do your job.Liam glanced at a n...

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“Thousands and Thousands” by Kevin Roller

The stars were in her basement, hung up high. Carolyn stared at them, watched their silent burning, watched with her fingers over her keyboard. Waiting, patient and quiet, for the ghosts.She turned her neck and looked up the stairs. The door was closed. Her daughter had gone to sleep without a fight, mercifully, but Carolyn still eyed the door occasionally. Suspicious. Not willing to complete trust the spurious silence in the house above her. Being an author and a parent didn’t mix sometimes; her daughter had a tendency to open tha...

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Writer with enough rejections to wallpaper a reasonably-sized room. Hopefully one day I'll have enough to fill an entire house.