M.C. Romero

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

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“Roads Paved in Gold” by M.C. Romero

Submitted to Contest #124

Look back to those years I awoke each morning, disoriented, cramped, and curled up against a wood-paneled wall, thin body upon a thinner mattress, grasping for a sense of time and place through sleep’s lifting veil. Dim sun peeked through plastic blinds, taunting me to tear them open in search of answer to that persistent, daily question: what place is this? But always strange desert sand and cactus answered, seen at 55 mph, and blurring together into an unfamiliar palette of khaki browns, greens, and grays; and, always, the great deserts st...

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“The Helper” by M.C. Romero

Submitted to Contest #105

Rex Helper made his way down the antiseptic hallway of building WH-3470, blinking his eyes as they adjusted to the dim, blue light. A loud mechanical hum buzzed along the hall but for workers like Rex, who would spend their whole lives inside such a building, it was as good as silence. He sighed with each step as he continued down the long hallway, passing doorway after doorway lit in the same artificial blue, his mind on his after-shift plans.  His life passed in shifts, not time. An hour, a week, months, and years - there was no dif...

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Author bio

I'm a technical writer but want to write about something more fun than software.