Lynel Black

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

Stories (20)

20 Stories

311 karma pts

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“Room mate” by Lynel Black

Submitted to Contest #93

TW: violence, gore, cannibalism I was absent mindedly browsing an online classifieds site when I came across an interesting ad. A wholesome, nice looking Romanian girl wanting to study in my country, seeking accommodations. I did need a new room mate since the last one moved out leaving me to cough up the whole rent each month, so I answered the ad before giving it much thought. Despite warnings from friends that claimed this is probably a scam, I kept an open mind. Somehow it felt right. In a surprisingly short time, she was a...

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“A new start” by Lynel Black

Submitted to Contest #86

Blink…, Blink…, Blink… The red light silently blinked its notice to the hibernating ship. The craft lazily and silently moved through unexplored space at 100`s of kilometres a second, but inside the ship, it could have been standing dead still. The ships computer had automatically initiated the wake routine for the captain and the first mate/shiptech. It was prompted by “new mission parameters” which were transmitted from earth months ago and only reached the ship now. This started a cascade of events deep inside the CPUs and memory ch...

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“The Box” by Lynel Black

Submitted to Contest #84

I never considered myself claustrophobic, but maybe its because I have never been in this situation. The crate is too small for me to lie down and to low for me to stand. The only position of any comfort is to sit back to one corner. At least I can stretch my legs this way. Cracks between the planks let dull light seep in, but there is precious little of that in the room where my crate is. I worry the edge of a plank with my fingernail to pass the time. The smells are strange, none that I had ever experienced before. Greasy and oily smel...

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“Steen” by Lynel Black

Submitted to Contest #82

His appearance in the T-pod did not go unnoticed. This was not as planned. He had to improvise a solution to deal with the surprised guard that happen to be only incidentally passing by. According to the work schedule, he should have been in a different location safely far away from the T-pod. The guard had no idea that anyone could come out of the machine that was exclusively used to violently decimate the partially processed Libynisium ore. This part of the refinery was the last phase of in the production of Vorkonium for the oxygen plan...

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“The Rock” by Lynel Black

Submitted to Contest #80

Diary preamble. I never thought of myself as a diary person. My life was simply to dull and mundane to document. That is till the middle of 2023. This was when I began to try to record the deluge of extraordinary events of that year, and the years that followed. The diary account you have found here was my underwhelming attempt to capture what I saw and what I learnt about the event that would change the course of life on earth. The Earth completely changed in a day, which took a year. A change that no living thing could deny. A profound...

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Author bio

The future spreads out ahead of us in a dark haze of anticipation. Even the physical reality we take as concrete fact, is no longer so solid. This is where I find rich veins of inspiration and creativity.