Patrick Sharkey

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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“A Tale of Two Prisons” by Patrick Sharkey

Submitted to Contest #291

I woke up to another day. The hours between now and sleep weigh on me like a thousand ton's of paper, all of which gather potential like dust, but for their mass I hide from them never knowing what wisdom, knowledge or power is contained within them. I don't want to know. Opportunity and variance are gaping maws looking fast on my routine. Without which, what even am I? I spin to leave my bed, my solitary bed with my baby blue bedspread my mother gave me when I was a teenager and which I have rotated with my slate grey one for 32 years....

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“Where Familiarity Forever Evades” by Patrick Sharkey

Submitted to Contest #289

The room is unfamiliar, I don't know how I got here. The shadow man, and his wide-brimmed hat resting above his smouldering ember eyes, chatters non-stop. It’s so dark. He skips about the room, up then down I can sense where he is from the malice which leaks from him like bad air out of a slow puncture. Last I remember, I was standing amidst the dust on the small landing fields in Malta. We had to lug sacks of flour to the mess hall, it was 78 goddam degrees in the shade and I was in no mood. The air was thick with memories, an oil...

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