Mike Isbell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

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“Nature's Soft Nurse” by Mike Isbell

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #224

NOTE: THIS STORY CONTAINS APOCALYPTIC THEMES AND SOME SLIGHT CURSING.2031 AD01001001/01000011/01000001/01001110/01010100/01010011/01001100/01000101 01000101/01010000Aric leaned over Doctor Drue Bruwell’s shoulder. With his dyslexia, he didn’t even bother trying to make sense of the ones and zeroes.“What did it say?” he asked. Drue stared at the binary digits inquisitively, clearly seeing something within them that Aric could not. Without looking down, she wrote something on a small notepad in front of her. After a long time, she let out...

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“The Lion” by Mike Isbell

Submitted to Contest #102

Little old Dotty Bennet had a lion’s head! What a mane it had, too, and ferocious teeth, a real wild hunter that you’d think might pounce right off the wall and onto you. Adults, they say it couldn’t come alive if Doctor Frankenstein had done his best work on it, and things of that nature just wouldn’t happen around parts like these, but when we sat together as kids and thought about it, what other purpose could it serve if not to protect the old golfing clubs and baseball cards behind the front counter? The taxidermist had left its eyes ...

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“Here and There a Dead Moth” by Mike Isbell

Submitted to Contest #64

A pastor in a raincoat and umbrellas huddled together for warmth. This is the scene in early November. Wind out of the north, stumbling south, spitting cold rain into the face of the midwest the whole trip through. Shivering car engines tick down the seconds as loved ones trample wet grass towards the hole dug into the center of a decomposing township. They can’t wait to get out of there any more than the dead couldn’t wait to get in. This is the way the chill dances through a crowd, tickling exposed skin where layering up wasn’t d...

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Midwesterner.

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #224
Nature's Soft Nurse – read story