Oliver James

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2024

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Letters to the Octopodes” by Oliver James

Submitted to Contest #286

December 1, 2080 My name is Michael Hayward, and I live in the DOM. DOM’s are large, geodesic, glass and steel structures designed to temper and harness the sun’s rays for energy, as well as sustain plant and animal life. I’m told they were originally built for large-scale agriculture in the early days of the Great Desertification. Now, structures like this keep us, humans, safe and alive. I was a linguist before I came here, the name for a person who studies and documents human language. You might assume, Reader, that a collapsing society ...

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“Horses” by Oliver James

Submitted to Contest #284

For twenty-three years, I attended the same church every Wednesday evening and Sunday morning. My family would sit together in a pew near the back or towards the middle, the front rows unofficially reserved for the most enthusiastic congregants. My mother was the exception in our family, and the reason we attended so faithfully. She stood, arms lifted above her head, tears flowing, and joined her prayers in the language of the Angels with the chaotic symphony of others. Their voices together produced a roiling boil of indecipherable noise ju...

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Author bio

Canadian, interested in big ideas and human relationships. I want my writing to feel true.