Michael Asselin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

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“A Brown Paper Package. Tied up With String.” by Michael Asselin

Submitted to Contest #281

The package had sat unopened on the table for two days. And it would, if Clemence obeyed the note stenciled in three inch high block letters, DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS, remain unopened for another two days. Thus far he’d managed to restrain himself. But the curiosity was already gnawing at him like him like so many pointed teeth. It was as if he was a child again, poking and prodding the package in a vain attempt to guess its contents. But now, as when he was a child, Cl...

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“Chrysalis” by Michael Asselin

Submitted to Contest #62

Chrysalis Michael Asselin Reed watched as the others made ready. He sat, feet dangling just above the cold metal floor. He ran his fingers over the edge of the capsule, the thing was angular, ugly, all hard lines and jagged edges, a design of utility, not beauty. And it would be his home, for what would amount to almost five hundred years on earth. He had been told that when he came back…if they came back, things could, would be vastly different. The films they had been shown were intended to provide comfort, to give them purpose, but they ...

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