RC Riggs

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Electric Reflections” by RC Riggs

Submitted to Contest #237

The couch is a faded forest green velvet, arms rolled in an imitation of an 18th-century English antique, but it is unequivocally comfy, which is why I had hauled it atop my ancient Volkswagen Beetle after finding it abandoned on the side of the road. That couch is the second most important tool of my trade.I sit on the couch staring at the gilded mirror, another miraculous gem saved from the curb. The gilt frame was missing chunks in several locations and had a crack vaguely in the shape of Nevada in the bottom left corner. But a mirror tha...

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“What Lies Beneath” by RC Riggs

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #235

In the deep, far, far beyond where the last flicker of sunlight fades away into an inky blackness, where the cold slows heartbeats to a nearly imperceptible pulse, and the incredible pressure of the ocean above warps the bones of ancient ships that lay deathly still on the seafloor, an unseeing eye blinks sleep away. Eons had passed along the surface as the creature slept. Puffs of clay muddies the water as it slowly writhes, working out its body's stiffness from its long slumber. In the deep, something dark stirs, one thought rippling acr...

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Author bio

In excavating old writing projects, I unearthed a projection that by the time I was 83.5, I'd have failed to accomplish three-quarters of the things I had promised to myself. This is me, trying to fulfill an ancient and dusty dream. As a younger, wiser (?) RC Riggs once wrote: There are so many things I've told myself I'll do "someday", but what if someday never comes? I think I might have to make TODAY someday, at least for this. That'll be my mantra for the year: Today is someday, someday is today.

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #235
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