Nathan Truzzolino

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2022

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2 Stories

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“Runneth Over” by Nathan Truzzolino

Submitted to Contest #160

What is the wildest thing you have ever seen?A winter storm?A cankerous sea?A forest on fire?Wild is beautiful. Wild is dangerous. Wild is free. -For the first time today, I have palmed a prickly cactus. The little prickly shits are everywhere. I lay prone, knowing they'll all see me if I lift an inch of my body off the dirt. Seeing me will confirm the fear of danger they drummed up six miles back when they first caught a whiff of me. The wind shifting was a sad turn of luck. Like an ambivalent toddler, the wind stopped, look...

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“The Bet” by Nathan Truzzolino

Submitted to Contest #159

Football, they say, is a game of inches. A single dollar bill is roughly 6.14 inches long and 2.61 inches wide. If one were to stack 10,000 one-dollar bills on top of each other, that would measure 43 inches high or 3.58 feet, a shade over a yard. 1 yard, three feet, or 36 inches was the difference between putting $16,000 in my pocket and getting my hand broken with a ball pin hammer. The NFC conference championship game was decided by one yard. With 12 seconds left in the contest, the running back dove forward with the b...

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Author bio

Creative writer, father, business owner and consumer of deli meats. Thank you for regaling in my tall tales.