Lee Kendrick

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

Stories (21)

21 Stories

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“The Flaming Curse” by Lee Kendrick

Submitted to Contest #98

The Flaming Curse As James lay in bed with his wife, Alice, he began to dream; he saw two boys around ten years old playing soldiers with their makeshift wooden muskets. One was a redcoat, the other a bluecoat. One of them pretended to bayonet his friend as he fell onto the grass. Suddenly both the boys stood up after hearing the sound of distant drums coming from the direction of a hill a mile away. They stared transfixed at the hill when their jaws dropped with fear when they saw a battalion of British redcoats marching ove...

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“The Sky Demon” by Lee Kendrick

Submitted to Contest #97

The Sky DemonAs Tom looked out of the bedroom window, he saw one of its hinges had broken. Leaving the hinges for a moment, he turned his attention to three miles away, to the beautiful English village of Bridgeminster, with a population of just fifty-five. His wife, Lucy, was visiting her mother there in her Mini Cooper; and would probably be there soon. Because their house was higher up on a hill, Tom had a good vantage point, and, w...

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“The Chosen One” by Lee Kendrick

Submitted to Contest #95

The Chosen OneAdriel and twelve hooded, robed men and women stood, holding hands in a circle, within the large henge stone circle. The Druids stared up into the black, velvet night sky covered with thousands of stars like shining diamonds. Their faces suddenly screwed up, terrified as they watched the stars begin to fall towards them. They break off the circle and instinctively take cover behind the large, sarsen stones of the henge. Suddenly, Adriel opens his eyes, sweat pouring down his face as he pulled off the bedclothes from ...

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“Frozen In Darkness” by Lee Kendrick

Submitted to Contest #92

“Frozen In Darkness” by Lee KendrickSuddenly the lights went out, and I was in complete darkness. It wouldn’t have been so bad if it wasn’t in the middle of winter, but temperatures were now below zero in London. I had just been watching an episode of my favourite old tv series, “Interpol Calling.”Very annoying when I was enjoying it, too. It must have been about 6.15 when this power cut occurred. In London in winter, It gets dark around five o’clock. So the power outage indeed came at not a good time.I looked out of my flat windo...

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“"It's Too Late" ” by Lee Kendrick

Submitted to Contest #91

“It’s Too Late"The library has always been an old haunt of mine. I’ve used my local library and others for many years. There is something about a library that is so homely; maybe it’s the smell of old books that gives this psychological effect. I feel Libraries are a gold mine of information. I’ve used them for my college days, for just pleasure and to find out the answer to things of interest. I have even had an excuse to go into a library just to escape the heavy rain. Take last Thursday, for instance; it must have been abou...

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“Entrapment” by Lee Kendrick

Submitted to Contest #90

Entrapment“Good afternoon Professor, Weybridge. I’m from Laboratory News. Can you tell the world and me what endangered plant species you and your team are currently trying to conserve In Kew Gardens?”Asked the reporter."Yes, the team and I are trying to cultivate different species of plants; one, in particular, is Dionaea Muscipula, known as The Venus Flytrap.&nbs...

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Author bio

Hi, my name Is Lee from the UK; I really love writing short stories. I have only started writing them this year, but I get enormous pleasure using the creative process of story writing. I have been on Reedsy three months now and I'm enjoying it immensely. I only wish I had discovered Reedsy much earlier. What a great idea it is to have prompts to help kick start a short story idea. I also sometimes get ideas for stories while walking my dogs in my local park in London. I've even had ideas after just waking from sleep. I Iook forward every week to find out what the week's next prompt is going to be about. Sometimes it may not inspire me enough, but over half of the prompts fire me up to write another story. And when I'm into a story I'm am in an adventure of excitement. Most of the time my plots and characters take over so that I don't know how the story will end until I'm well into it!