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Merlin Darwin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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The Knight

The Knight’s clanking metal shone brilliantly under the light of a soft sun, resting above in a blue sky. And very much like young lamb were the white clouds that drifted gently there too. The Knight’s metal footprints left depressions in the field of wildflowers, bent little stems, and crushed little petals. He felt sorry, though that was foolish. How could one possibly care for the lives of a few blossoms, when many times the sword at his side had been driven through the hearts of men. The field spread before him like a sea of colour...

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Lovers at the Diner

Submitted to Contest #290

I never wanted to live here, in this terrible town. Here lived clean people with dirty minds and judging stares, in old rotting houses with peeling layers of paint and moss coating the walls that were once new. All growing old in a quiet town that has nothing more to offer someone like me. I suppose there's a bit of romance to it if you have an imagination. Probably in the fifties or sixties everyone here was a newlywed, looking to turn a rural town into a home, putting up shops and churches and more churches, having kids and settling down.&...

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