Marty Katz

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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3 Stories

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“Chance Meeting” by Marty Katz

Submitted to Contest #56

Fairy tales do exist. Well, the Cinderella type anyway. It was 1992 August, to be exact. The location was a small town in Maine. One of the actors in this play lived there while the other lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Chances of ever meeting were slim, bordering on never. Never is a strange word, and it does not fit in here. Allow the story to continue. The person in Maine was a karate student, and today was her black belt test. She had been training for over five years, and it all came down to this moment....

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“The Nerd” by Marty Katz

Submitted to Contest #51

Eric was a computer nerd. He accepted this as his fate in life. Ever since elementary school, he was the subject of constant bullying. His black-framed glasses, overweight size, and unkempt hair made him the subject of far too many practical jokes. These jokes hurt and cut deep. In fact, that action shaped his future. In high school, to ease the pain of lack of friends and name-calling, he considered himself a kind of computer wiz. He excelled in all his math and computer classes. In time, he retreated into...

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“The Waiting Game” by Marty Katz

Submitted to Contest #49

The Waiting Game By Marty Katz It is written that when a man reaches the age of forty-five, he still has many good years left. I arrived, and suddenly it did not seem so true. All my life, I was extremely active both in my professional and social lives. If that was not enough activity, I married a very young looking, in great shape woman almost eight years my junior. So when the little pain in my side began, I thought nothing of it. But it would not go away. I would wake up at night feeling this constant discomf...

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