Max McKercher

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2020

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“Visiting” by Max McKercher

Submitted to Contest #32

Giana looked across at the playground, at the kids happily playing in the playground across from where she was seated. The world beginning to spring to life with them. A group of older boys were at the tire swing that was on the tall oak tree on the far side of the grounds, going buck wild seeing who could spin the fastest without falling out. A few girls were at the unreasonably long monkey bars, seeing who could get the farthest. The slide was always her favorite though. It was tall and wide and the first thing Giana always went to when sh...

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“Another Day” by Max McKercher

Submitted to Contest #31

Another week, another cheek, another day wishing she was fired. Jamie hated her job. She works in a cubicle. Who would want that job? She’s been here for five years with no raise. Her boss is the typical sexist pig you see in every movie, always ordering the female employees to do all the small things and having the male employees doing the “hard work” because it’s what they do. She’s not friends with any of her coworkers. They were friends before she got there and she scares off the new employees from being friends. Her mother told her that...

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Author bio

Max is a high school short story writer who likes to add twists, subverting expectation and combining the super/fiction and the normal/average.