Michael Baker

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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“The Mind: An Excellence and Incompetence. ” by Michael Baker

Submitted to Contest #54

Breathing is fairly easy, truth be told. It’s all inhale, exhale -it’s not all that difficult to get a hang of to be honest. We can call that the bottom of the skill tree, the roots really. It’s very much the easiest skill a person could ever be expected to master. Those who don’t get the hang of it don’t typically get very far. There aren’t a great deal of those, though, thankfully. I’ve personally seen a great many people breath competently in my time, some of them even babies. Even that one dimwit from high school who held the absurd noti...

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“There's no going back.” by Michael Baker

Submitted to Contest #54

“They can rob you of everything but your achievements, lad. Those you’ll keep forever.”Those were the words my father had told me, sat beside me on my bed the day before my first boxing match. I was bearly sixteen. He wasn’t an acutely educated man; meek beginnings had instilled in him an appreciation of hard work bordering on idolatry. He was quick to speak his mind and quicker still to bow out to the more informed, a humble but strong-willed man. Having said that, there was one thing he would never surrender to anyone, a fact that he held ...

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