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Michael Blackmore

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2025

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RE: Prior to corporate merger with Andromeda galaxy

Michael Blackmore

Submitted to Contest #306

---From: sky@milkyway.net.solSent: Friday, June 13, 2025 1:22 PMTo: earth@milkyway.net.solSubject: Ape infestation? Hey Earth, It's been a while since I touched base. You've really been letting yourself go. Have you noticed your surface is swarming with apes and their creations? I knock off for the day and I’ve still got lights blearing back at me from your dark side. Also, they've set the heating on all day and all night and I'm getting a bit parched (so typical - you complain that it's too bloody cold in the office and then they make it to...

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Wisptail

Michael Blackmore

Submitted to Contest #306

...C:\>a:Insert floppy into a:C:\>a:A:\>cd wisptailA:\Wisptail>run wisptail.exe Loading… %100 WISPTAIL © 1987, BLACKMORE STUDIOS, INC. GC AUS. Welcome back adventurer! Would you like to CONTINUE, start a NEW GAME, or QUIT? >new game Name your character: >brandon Your journey is ready to begin! Prologue Deep in the forests of Ajur a small ring of moss-covered stones lay bedded upon brown and amber leaves in a forgotten grove. Above, an intertwining of ancient oak crowds the sky allowing only the silver glimmers of a perpetua...

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The Jim Huckaby Interview

Michael Blackmore

Submitted to Contest #298

Considering what he has achieved in the last two decades, it’s hard to imagine that Jim Huckaby was ever just a mediocrity like the rest of us, but he did not, in fact, achieve anything of note until after he was forty years old, spending his youthful years in obscurity, and, as he would later describe in his new memoir Huckaby Unleashed, under the sinister influence of a metaphysical entity he came to call The Pain.Ever the loudest voice in his mind, The Pain was the foremost authority he had listened to when any decision had to be made, an...

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10am Tuesday - Appointment with Death

Michael Blackmore

Submitted to Contest #297

Death was late for his appointment with me, again. I’d asked him so many times to put me out of my misery, but he’d always come up with some excuse when the time came: “I have a headache”, “The weather is bad”, “Jupiter is not in alignment”. After all the words I’d written in his favor, his continual snubbing made me question the depth of our relationship. And here I was again, waiting, when I knew he wouldn’t come. Well, maybe a part of me thought it would be different this time, based on our last conversation over the phone: “It’s been fi...

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Playtime

Michael Blackmore

Submitted to Contest #296

Charlie dangled his legs over the edge of the bridge as he played. In each hand he held a figurine. The left was called Blane and the right, Count Dukov. They had been forced to fight for the last half hour. Charlie now offered a reprieve to the tired soldiers – a chance to talk through their differences. Blane was given a heroic all-American accent and Count Dukov that of a sinister broadly-European Machiavellian which the 10-year-old boy was too young to consider offensive. Count Dukov spoke first:“You fight well, Mr. Blane. I have at last...

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The Apple of Happiness

Michael Blackmore

Shortlisted for Contest #295 ⭐️

Alfric met a beaming Samuel outside the cloister. “Blessed day Samuel. You look well.” “Alfric, my friend, I want to show you something.” “What is it? Where?” “Follow me.” Alfric followed Samuel, who led him to his cell and pulled out an apple from under his pillow. He presented it to Alfric: “Here!” “An apple?” “Yes. But not just any apple. This is The Apple of Happiness!” “A happy apple?” “No, an apple that makes you happy.” “So, you eat the apple and you become happy?” “No, you don’t need to eat it - you just think about it and ...

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