Richard E. Gower

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Collector's Item- A Fable Of The Future” by Richard E. Gower

Submitted to Contest #184

Paulus Cranshaw stared at the rows of numbers on the curved panoramic screen in front of him and felt a sweat break out under his armpits. His predecessor, damn his exactitude, may have been correct. There was a potential imbalance in the stats and it was deadly serious. It was the largest discrepancy Paulus had ever seen in his almost thirty years with the department. He still had doubt about the accuracy of his findings. But the numbers couldn't lie, could they? Double-entry accounting was one of the f...

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“Defending The Status Quo” by Richard E. Gower

Submitted to Contest #184

What went through Rawlins’ mind as he opened his locker was, Houston, we have a problem.The crazy thing was, he had taken stock of his life that very morning as he was putting on his uniform, just before the excrement had hit the fan blades with a definite splat, in a manner of speaking. And, if he gave it any thought – which he didn’t do very often – as lives went, it wasn’t a bad one.Rawlins, Jeremy Edward, according to the plastic photo-ID card he was issued, back when he was first hired as ...

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Author bio

My (unfulfilled) dream job: Head Writer for The Simpsons I write mostly fiction, and write to be read. Someone else said it better, but my goal is to write stories that are worth plagiarizing. All stories are Copyright © 2023 Richard E. Gower Some writers whose work I admire: Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Kazuo Ishiguro, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paula McLean, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Fannie Flagg, Stephen King, Eleanor Catton, John Updike, Dorothy Parker, Isaac Asimov, Katherine Anne Porter, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, Max Folsom, Lewis Carroll, Thorne Smith, Emily Brontë, S.J. Perelman, Jack Finney, Donna Leon, Eugene O'Neill, Madeline Thien, P.J. O'Rourke, Hannah Arendt, John Cheever, Iris Murdoch, O. Henry, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest K. Gann, Eudora Welty, Henry David Thoreau, Harper Lee, Robertson Davies, Naomi Novik, John D. MacDonald, Mary Shelley, Nevil Shute, Maeve Binchy, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, P.D. James, Tom Robbins, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Miller, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, H. P. Lovecraft, Herman Wouk, Graham Greene, Richard Russo, and Many, many others...