Kyle Shafer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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2 Stories

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“Captain” by Kyle Shafer

Submitted to Contest #58

“Just tell us about the first time you first heard of this... mutiny, overthrowing your captain, the very man providing you with work and food. What was your role in it,” the sitting cop demanded. He had a chip implanted in his head, I could tell by the semi bald patch in his thick hair. We all had chips these days, even the ones who couldn’t afford it in the past. Technology always progressed at alarming rates after the first model was released. We got the first generations, the ones with all the problems. A lot of chips malfunctione...

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“SUMMER SALUTATIONS” by Kyle Shafer

Submitted to Contest #53

It was my last day at home and I was beginning to grow sad. This bed I laid in was soon to be a cheap twin in a cramped closet of a college campus. I stared up at the ceiling, the ceiling of my childhood. Those zig zag cracks in the paint were forever embedded in my memory. The parts that were chipped from when me and Dad tried to hang glow-in-the-dark stars up there. That didn’t go so well, they were cheap and didn’t glow. Dad took them down after a week and bought me a planetarium projector. He used to do a lot of nice things like that, ba...

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