Kory Goldbeck

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“Brotherly Love” by Kory Goldbeck

Submitted to Contest #279

(This story contains sensitive triggers such as Mental Health, Physical Violence, and Substance Abuse.) Another bottle shatters against the wall, the whiskey mixing with the filth of the floor. My apartment reeks of sweat and mildew, but all I smell is iron. It's the same everyday. I wake up with blood on my hands and black tar on my face. My hands shake as I scrub vigorously but it never goes away. My face has become a fleshy mold of what it was. They say sorrow is one of those things that only happen when sadness happens, but I believe it...

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“Lost in Favors” by Kory Goldbeck

Submitted to Contest #152

"I can see it now," I say to myself. It was pitch black, but the light above me started to flicker in a dark room with padded walls, silence in the black night. Screams of the mind fill the halls, and squealing metal burns the eardrums. I was wrapped up in a stray and let out of the room. Traveling endlessly into the aisles filled with terror and disease. I looked in the corner; at the end of the hall was a person crunched over in a ball; they stood out from the rest, not wearing a gown. I started to get closer, and they lifted their heads t...

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“The C.A.I Program” by Kory Goldbeck

Submitted to Contest #150

I work for a calling center in San Francisco. All employees will stay home and take numerous calls with the recent pandemic. Compared to my colleagues, I have a pretty old computer, but it gets the job done. My days have been the same so far, family time and work, but something seems a little off with my computer. My desktop has many tabs open when I step out to go to the kitchen or the bathroom. It's not very odd because it happens from time to time. But one day, something very stranger happens. The call center I work for has a number count...

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I actually draw better than I can write, but I'm trying to get better, and hopefully, weekly prompts can help with that.