R Collins

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Across The Great Desert” by R Collins

Submitted to Contest #53

Although he was only thirty, Ktor had already secured a job as a messenger for the Cherozan Corporation, the largest mining conglomerate remaining on the planet Gallora. As one of their messengers he transported small parcels and packages between their various offices — usually things that they were unable to transmit via the planetary network due to security. Mostly, this meant going to and from sites around the planetary headquarters on Ta’Lakor, the capital of the northern polar region. Occasionally though, he would have to traverse the G...

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“Lucky Ticket” by R Collins

Submitted to Contest #51

Nora looked at the tickets, piled in a corner of her living room. The pile would ebb and flow over time as she bought tickets and then threw the pile away simultaneously, a loser again. All of them had the same thing printed on them: 05-06-08-21-79, her lucky numbers. The digits that opened the lock to the life she had always wanted.Screaming in rage and frustration, Nora ran her hand over the table, showering the tickets across the floor — fallen stars, each one a prayer for a better future. She dropped down onto the ground and wept, the te...

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“The Patient” by R Collins

Submitted to Contest #51

“Doctor Phillips, good to see you again.” Doctor Casey Phillips was the head of the infectious disease department at Wathingford University. Considered one of the foremost experts on the subject, she had been fêted in medical publications across the world and invited to speak before at least thirteen different heads of state.“Thank you Sydney. How is our patient?” Sydney Kanumba was one of Doctor Phillip’s undergraduate students. His life long ambition was to become a medical doctor, to follow in his mother’s footsteps. Through har...

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Author bio

Enjoys complaining about the world but does nothing to change it . . . yet.