Matt Slater

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“The Runaways” by Matt Slater

Submitted to Contest #110

11:00 PM, Friday, December 31st, 19990.75 miles outside of Leavenworth, WashingtonEvan Samuels drove his truck up the mountain. His breath was shaky, and he remained focused on the road ahead despite the fact that his brain was processing 2,000 thoughts per second.He was dressed rather slovenly: torn jeans, one gray sock, one blue sock, five-year-old tennis shoes that were showing their age, a camo t-shirt, a flannel shirt with the sleeves ripped off, a beige double-breasted coat, and titanium tunnels stretching his earlobes to a centimeter....

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“The Friend Lock” by Matt Slater

Submitted to Contest #77

G; Sports Action Location: University Place, Washington Time: 1:03 PM, January 20, 2023 A snow day on a Friday. That was the dream. At least it was for Wyatt and Martin. They hadn’t seen snow like this in years, as it rarely snowed in University Place, and when it did, it usually melted hours later. Yet the universe blessed them with a foot of snow and a three-day weekend to enjoy it. Whatever I did right, though Wyatt, as he ate the PBJ his grandmother had made for him, I have to remember what it was. Wyatt bolted out of his house aft...

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“The Aviary of Henry Weston” by Matt Slater

Submitted to Contest #73

PG-13; Bullying, LanguageLocation: Ruston, WashingtonTime: 9:01 AM, December 19th, 2014Connor Weston stared through the glass wall. He stood on the parlor side, within the 6-bedroom, 7-bathroom, ocean-view house that his late Uncle Henry had bequeathed to him, his sister, and three cousins. Each Weston had a job assigned to them after Henry’s death the day after Thanksgiving. Henry’s lawyer would evaluate their work on Christmas to determine whether the job had been completed in a manner that would’ve satisfied Henry’s wishes, whatever that ...

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Author bio

Hello. My name is Matt Slater. I am in college for Geoscience and Screenwriting. I am based in Washington State, the setting for a lot of my stories. I am also openly gay and autistic, with ADD. Virgo, 2001.