Oliver Gray

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2024

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“Obits” by Oliver Gray

Submitted to Contest #280

(CONTENT WARNING: Death and Language)Obits“Nary a one?”           My editor didn’t rise from his battered, faux-leather seat. He didn’t even bother taking his feet off his desk. Hell, he didn’t even raise his voice. Didn’t yell or scream the way my old Army sergeants would.           He sat there, leaning back in his baby-shit green chair, his feet clad in a pair of knock-off penny loafers he’d obviously picked up at Wally World or T...

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“Bunny” by Oliver Gray

Submitted to Contest #279

(CONTENT WARNING: Language, Drug Use, and Violence)Bradley Honaker was the last motherfucker alive. He knew it. Just fucking knew it. The last one. The last goddamned human being on the planet.           And he was sprawled on the living room floor of his home at the corner of Irving Street and K Avenue, propped up slightly by the world’s heaviest damned coffee table, unbathed and unwashed, wearing only a pair of whitey-tighties that hadn’t been clean for six weeks. Somewhere, from an un...

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“Pap” by Oliver Gray

Submitted to Contest #278

Pap“Peter Gibbons?” the nurse asked.             I nodded, started to reach for my wallet, that automatic gesture we all learn early on. The one that says ‘hey, I can prove it, here are my papers’. Only they’re not papers anymore. Plastic mostly. Two-inch by three-inch chunks of some sort of polymer with some ink arranged in just the right way.             The nurse waived me off and pointed down the hall. “Room f...

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Author using a pen name. Mixing 93% gritty realisticity, 6% attempts at fantastical electricity, 4% magical nonsense, and 2% butterscotch ripple... Copyright (c) 2024 Oliver Gray - All Rights Reserved. Using content without permission is prohibited.