M.M. Romero

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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“Time Flies When You're Having Fun” by M.M. Romero

Submitted to Contest #166

Henry finished the TSB’s six month training program in three - partly because they desperately needed more agents in the field and partly because he was just that good. His reflex times were off the charts, his aptitude tests were in the highest percentile, and he won every combat challenge they threw at him. More importantly, Henry was a company man through and through. He believed in the TSB’s mission. But all the skills and all the care in the world could not change the fact that Henry was a green recruit with zero field experience and an...

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“The Boy in the Treehouse” by M.M. Romero

Submitted to Contest #50

The boy was in the treehouse. He couldn’t tell how long he had been there. In the beginning, he would mark each passing of the sun overhead with a notch on the wall but had long since surpassed the highest number to which he had ever learned to count. He looked around as the summer light filtered through the bars on the windows. The treehouse was sparse. There was a semblance of a bed – a grouping of blankets, a pillow. There was a lamp, a worn copy of a single volume of a one hundred-year old encyclopedia, chalk, and...

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