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Matthew Bialobrzeski

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2025

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Going Up

Matthew Bialobrzeski

Submitted to Contest #311

I hesitate before getting on the elevator, several others already on it. But I was running behind and had a job interview on the top floor. Screw it, I think before stepping on, giving an awkward smile to the two men that shuffle back to make room. “Sorry,” I mutter before turning to face the door. I check my thin black tie and make sure I have no wrinkles in my suit jacket, or stains on my white dress shirt. The doors close and the elevator begins to ascend. I listen and shake my head in disbelief as a musak version of Disturbed’s “Down wit...

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The Undead King’s Daughter

Matthew Bialobrzeski

Submitted to Contest #309

The bounty to recover Silvana was a lifetime of gold, or so the herald claimed. Silvana: the Death Knight of Decay. Mistress of Woe. Third daughter of the Undead King, Gorizzin. She fled from her father’s island keep, in the dead of night 3 weeks ago. Now he wanted her back. Her trail was easy to follow once I found where her boat had landed. She hadn’t bothered to hide her tracks- heavy boot prints broke branches and her path left deep grooves in the mud. Not that she could hide her trail in this overgrown forest that she now wandered, for ...

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The Woman in Green

Matthew Bialobrzeski

Submitted to Contest #308

The Solstice celebration was on in full swing. Villagers gathered, dragging tables and benches out from the inn, placing them about the glen in a rough square. The master baker sold tarts and pastries from his cart as the smell of roasting boar filled the air to dance with the scent of the summer day. The mistrals played a merry tune as many in the village laughed and danced in the grass beside the stage. I took it all in with a wide smile on my face as I flexed my knees and bobbed my head in time with the tune. Between my reserved dance mov...

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