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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021
Submitted to Contest #98
By the time Tom was done with work on an average Tuesday, the sun had already set. Despite the departure of the fiery star in the sky, the heat from the day radiated from the ground and warmed the soles of his feet. Hauling his things over his shoulder, he walked to his crappy lone Toyota. Even though he had come early to work, he was forced to stay late into the night finishing up some market research to cater to the Krid demographic. Tom was never a very opinionated person. He didn’t really care for many things. Even when the news o...
Submitted to Contest #97
January 12, 2021. 11:12 PM. She sat on her bed facing her window, staring intently through the frosted glass. Her hands were clammy from holding the crappy night vision camera tightly. She had a flashlight and a baseball bat beside her as well, available if the situation called for it. The only light seeping into her room was from the street lamps that flickered every twenty-seven seconds. Sometimes eighteen if it was a particularly cold night. “Sixteen, seventeen…” she paused. The light outside flickered. A cold day then. Glancing at...
I write mediocre stories.
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