Reggie Tennison

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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“The Jig Is Up” by Reggie Tennison

Submitted to Contest #289

The room is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got here. I am lying on a bare mattress, pushed up against the wall in the deepest corner of the room. An ancient lamp spewed a very modest amount of light, the only light in the room. My head spins a little as a sit up. I try to gather my thoughts, but they’re muddled and thick with cobwebs, blocking coherent thought. I even struggled to come up with my name at first. Then it broke through the blockage, Billy Franklin. I’m Billy Franklin. I smiled. Coming up with my name felt like a minor victory. ...

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“The Tunnel” by Reggie Tennison

Ethan Dunning was chewing on a nonexistent fingernail; he had, in fact, perfected the terrible habit of keeping them chewed down to the cuticle. Ethan, two months shy of his sixteenth birthday, was agonizing over what to wear to that night’s varsity basketball game. He had spent the afternoon trying to pump himself up, telling himself that tonight was the night that he would approach Mia and charm her socks right off. Maybe even her bra, he thought with a sad smile. Mia Hamlin had grown up with Ethan, and they had been good friends throughou...

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My writing partner and I finished our first novel in 2024, and are now working on #2.