Liam Spinage

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2021

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“Learning to Fly” by Liam Spinage

Submitted to Contest #124

Alys Irisetti had always dreamed of taking to the skies. For as long as she could remember, their sect had been forbidden, outlawed under the moral guardianship of the Church of the Anchorer. History told her this had not always been so: that at certain times in the distant past, the Lady of the Burden Bird had been canonised as St Badenbaum and assimilated into regular worship, her statues taking pride of place in halls of worship everywhere. Her statue was hidden in a wall recess behind a portrait of her grandmother. Even o...

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“The Monster in the Cupboard” by Liam Spinage

Submitted to Contest #115

When he was young, on those all too frequent occasions when they decided that he had misbehaved, they locked him in the cupboard under the stairs. It was not the punishment they thought. Dark, certainly. Silent. blessedly. Comforting, certainly. The sounds of quarrels diminished in that space, voices muted in the embracing darkness. There were no monsters hiding in that cupboard yet. As far as he was concerned, they were all outside, in plain view. He sits down and waits patiently for release. This began to happen regularly. ...

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