Peter Gaskin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

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“Time is But a Long Pull from a Tom Collins” by Peter Gaskin

CW: some minor cursing. He’d sworn to his parents, to his teachers. To his friends, to the bullies and the naysayers. He was going to be an astronaut. He was going to train, to study, to work hard at it. He was going to be the first kid to set his little human toes on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Those were the last thoughts in his mind when...

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“The Newcomer” by Peter Gaskin

It wasn’t such a bad place to grow up in, this little town. The streets were narrow but straight, the shops old but clean. Residents woke early to take in the crosswinds of coffee and pastry pumping out of the corner bakery. The dew muffled the morning into stillness, quieted the quiet folk, weighted them down with complacency, comforted them with a familiarity that kept their routines on track.There wasn’t much room for hate here. Most of the day was spent in reverie of time gone by, or in wonder of what lay ahead. Most...

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Father, writer, editor, guy who generally likes more things than he hates.