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Nathaniel Schwartz

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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Lights and Everything

Nathaniel Schwartz

Submitted to Contest #25

It was a New Year's Eve party, lights and everything, hosted in the most luxurious part of the city, talked about for days or weeks in advance. Now visited by three friends, who approached the tremendous wooden double doors with excitement. They had spent the whole evening debating their plans for the night. Jen had wanted something small, comforting, just the three of them on the living room couch. They might stay up until midnight and then pull out some mattresses or sleeping bags. Erica and Florence had thought differently. They saw a nig...

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A Villa at the Sea

Nathaniel Schwartz

Submitted to Contest #24

A knock. Three, actually, quick and short. The first had been brutal, but the next two even more so, and the young lovers in the summer house agreed that the pounding should have broken down the door by now, maybe even the wall. They had come here to vacation, to escape all the schoolwork and stress that was rampant at university. Their origin story had always seemed just as inconsequential to themselves as it did to their friends and families. They had simply met in a class they had taken together and quickly taken a liking to each other. T...

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Snow in the Morning, and then in the Afternoon, Evening and Night, and then All Week Long

Nathaniel Schwartz

Submitted to Contest #23

Snow in the morning is a most curious affair. One sleeps well and wakes the next day just as they did the day before, but after yawning, rising, stretching, and drawing the curtains, one finds a world drastically different than the one in which they slept so peacefully the night before. This experience is much the same in the country and the city, as trees and barns tend to blanket themselves in the pure stuff just as easily as skyscrapers do, and the steady sound of flakes upon the roof is just as soft in the cottage as in the townhous...

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