R. A.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“My Dear Lethologica” by R. A.

Submitted to Contest #80

I remember how, when I was young, I would sometimes stop to take a good look at my father. I would examine his strong jaw and the dark skin beneath his eyes and the smile that so charmed my mother, and I would stomp my little feet and shriek my little voice, and wonder, frustrated, what am I missing?My father was very patient with me, whenever I got like this. He would watch me watching him and smile, kindly, in a way I’ve since tried to emulate but have never quite mastered. Kindness, as a concept, is not one of my strengths. It escape...

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“The Violinist” by R. A.

🏆 Winner of Contest #75

The first time Alin walks by the woman in the corner, she barely notices her. There are too many distractions, detractions, voices in her ear — the harried man waving down a taxicab, the aging street vendor hawking his wares — to separate any one sound from another. It’s all noise, and Alin is used to noise. She doesn’t notice her the second time, either. It’s only luck that she ends up doubling back, returning to the bookshop to process an order she’d forgotten. The bustle of rush hour is still going strong when she politely elbows her...

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“What Wise Men Fear” by R. A.

Submitted to Contest #29

It isn't the impending murder that's grinding Danny's nerves, not really. It's the fact that the kid, baby-faced and just shy of adulthood, is doing it all wrong.He's got a wine bottle in his hand, of all things. It's broken, somehow, even though those expensive flasks are damn hard to shatter the way this one's been; all jagged edges and dark, dripping beads of Merlot, running red like the blood of the guy the kid's five seconds from stabbing.They're in a well-kept yard two feet from the sidewalk. It's dark. Only one streetlight, barely eno...

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“All The Slender Devils” by R. A.

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #13

There were a lot of things August had been expecting from the one-night-fright deal he'd been sent online. A few scares, maybe, and a reprieve from the constant ridicule of his friends. They were always ribbing him about his tall, spindly frame, his ghost-pale skin — all the things that made him a kind of ripoff Slender Man, really — and how it was therefore that much funnier that he was such a veritable scaredy-cat. August, of course, preferred to think of it as a healthy dose of caution. His self-preserving instincts had defini...

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Author bio

I'm made of pizza and Netflix and procrastination, mostly. Throw in a little creative writing and a lot of caffeine (really, we're talking critical levels of coffee consumption here) and I'd say you have a pretty good idea of who I am.

Winning 1 story 🏆

Contest #75

The Violinist – read story

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #13

All The Slender Devils – read story