Luke Melvin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“Janus” by Luke Melvin

Submitted to Contest #180

The door slid shut behind me with a smooth hum. The captain’s office was spartan compared to the rest of the ship: a desk lit by a dim light overhead, a chair, cabinets containing all manner of filing standing against the left wall. Opposite this was not a wall but a great window, with all of space piled against it, the speckled black doing its utmost to reduce the room even further, just one more insignificance in the scheme. Captain Wesley Blum strode easily to the other side of the desk, fingers brushing the desktop as he went. “Take a ...

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“We Also Make Thunder” by Luke Melvin

Submitted to Contest #176

Hannah had known two indisputable truths about lightning: it required broody clouds to be formed and a quick eye to be seen. An indisputable truth challenged without proof inspired laughter. An indisputable truth challenged indisputably simply inspired. So it was with Hannah when, having hidden herself in the old haven from her childhood, she spied a Starry One in the near clearing. Creeping forward in the forest brush, Hannah crouched in the loam soil and fragrant scent and watched, a woodland creature whose den had been intruded upon. The ...

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“Just Keep Dancing” by Luke Melvin

Submitted to Contest #149

Don’t drink on an empty stomach. That’s what they all say. But no one ever told me not to drink on an empty head: when the brain feels like a black cavity and you’re left curled up in bed, steeped in neglect and pitiful esteem. A drink will make me feel better, some think. It’ll cheer me up! Then they have that drink, and another, and another, and while they might feel elevated for the first few swigs, the beer becomes bottled bitterness, the spirits mixed melancholy, and they end up in a pit far deeper than when they had started. I was one ...

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