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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020
Submitted to Contest #52
Clockwork was antsy. Every bit of him twitched and fidgeted, his mind still mulling over the answers that eluded him. He turned and peered through the curtains. Daylight cartwheeled into the room before he closed them. It was best that no one saw him in the golden hours. Clockwork sat on the edge of the bed, restless. He could only keep up the charade for so long. His foot tapped on the ground, the frantic rhythm of a drum as the world continued to spin. The gears in his mind spun. The ache in his thoughts begged for answers to questions he ...
Submitted to Contest #51
The stars glittered like diamonds that dripped from the cape of a queen. Clockwork recalled an old legend that said if you drank starlight from the heavens you’d remember what you didn’t even know you had forgotten. He wanted that more than anything right now. Clockwork shook his head, further disrupting his disheveled, synthetic, ivory hair. His green eyes dilated, swiftly acclimating to the atremental gloom that closed around him as twilight departed and night strolled the streets. He looked at the address written on a scrap of pape...
Submitted to Contest #50
Lightning shattered the sky, sending fractures of my past and present tumbling around me in the same manner as flying bits of the opulent glass window we’d destroyed. I never thought it would come down to this. My hands quivered, holding the gun. “Wuss...a real man would shoot me.” I closed my eyes, rain crashing through the broken window, my finger trembling on the trigger. Fifteen Minutes Earlier The silver clouds hung with rain, like a weary man walking laboriously to the eminent gallows before him. The world seemed to slow to a hal...
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