Kyle Smith

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“A Break from Reality” by Kyle Smith

Submitted to Contest #47

The first pangs of guilt had struck him months ago, and he had done his best to ignore them as they came in waves. Certain moments - a particularly affectionate exchange, a show of love, triggered this guilt he was burdened with. Most of the time he wouldn’t acknowledge it, store it in his conscience for a later date, but as the date grew closer these feelings kept him up at night. He lay awake, pondering the future and regretting the past. All of these memories flooded back in a flurry of thoughts as the car slowed and made its way ...

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“El Roco” by Kyle Smith

Submitted to Contest #45

Transform. Change. Evolve. With none of these words would I associate myself, but everyone kept insisting that I was at a point of change in my life. After all, I’d just graduated from college and was starting a new job. Thanks to the scholarship I had earned, I was debt-free. What they didn’t know was that I had already been changing, just not in the way they’d been expecting. Looking back on it now, I’ve begun to understand why no one could see it but me. There were no physical changes, no tangible personality changes - jus...

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“The Path” by Kyle Smith

Submitted to Contest #42

Forty had walked the path, and zero had returned. Yet, despite this, Samantha kept on her journey along the path. The idea of never seeing her sister again fueled her to keep walking, despite the sharp pain in her side and ear-splitting headache. She had lost her sense of time hours ago, but she had a vague idea based on the unilluminated sky above her. Samantha had always been an optimistic person, but the criteria surrounding her journey faltered this feeling. Upon listeni...

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