Malcolm Carter

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2023

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“Please Resurrect Me” by Malcolm Carter

Submitted to Contest #221

Please resurrect me. The prompt for this story is: “Write a story about someone trying to raise the dead”; but if you’re me, and I am, you’re writing this prompt: “How to be pretentious in 1000-ish words with roughly 15 minutes to spare before the deadline". My cat, Lucy, died last November. She was close to 10 years old. She wasn’t doing so well, and it got to the point where she didn’t want to eat, so I took her to the emergency vet, who told me they thought she had cancer and that it had spread. I made the choice to have her euthanized....

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“Relief” by Malcolm Carter

Submitted to Contest #215

I'm not sure there's anything worse than having to take a shit at work. It's not like I have issues pooping or anything, but the bathrooms are so disgusting. The men's room is a smorgasbord of tobacco spit in the corners of stalls, shit smears on inconceivable surfaces, wet toilet paper everywhere, loose--and often wet--pubes, bandits of tobacco everywhere, and unflushed toilets and urinals. It's lit like a back alley, and reeks of piss and shit regardless of the time of day. And on a hot day like today, it's worse. It's beyond stressful; it...

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