Menu

Menu
Prompts
Contests
Stories
Blog
Directory
Contests
Magazine
FAQ

Mason Springer-Lipton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

Stories (1)
Comments
Library
0 Followers
0 Following

1 Story

16 karma pts

?

Nathan's Equilibrium

Submitted to Contest #241

The keyboard was cold and bristly under my fingertips--space bar, ctrl, W--like snake scales. I breathed in, out, in, out. My heart slammed at my throat. Beside me Nathan stuttered, stumbled over half-spoken words. "I- Professor, it- I don't know how it got there- I didn't mean-" "You didn't mean to open ChatGPT?" I stared ahead across the lecture hall, eyes fixed on the paneled walls and blackboard displaying the remaining exam time in big, looping white letters. 45 minutes. I tried not to look down, at the heads that spun back, eyes up and...

6 likes 1 comment 1
Read story