Neil Deuchar

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2022

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“White Lie” by Neil Deuchar

Submitted to Contest #129

Firstly, there’s a ski on top of your snowboard. The queue scrapes and slithers forward but you can’t move because someone’s ski is slap bang across your board. Left foot strapped into the front binding, right foot planted on the slush beside the board, you look up and ahead and see chairs coming round and scooping up twos and threes from the front of the queue. Then you look down and trace the ski to its owner. He’s prodding his poles into the snow to push himself forward. You smell Ambre Solaire and garlic. “Excusez-moi?” you say in your p...

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“The Composer” by Neil Deuchar

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #128

The Composer An elderly man is sitting perfectly still on a sofa. One hand hangs limply from the armrest, the other trembles on a familiar depression in the upholstery beside him. His head moves with his breath as he stares at the room out of the tops of his eyes. A mirror hangs over an unused fireplace. The mirror frames his head and shoulders with ornate gilt whenever he coaxes himself up onto his poles and, balance corrected, raises his head. There’s a small television on a corner table, its flex wound into a carrier bag. Behind it, win...

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Author bio

I live in Bath, UK, where I work for a hospice.

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #128

The Composer – read story