Rob Ryter

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Connection Lost” by Rob Ryter

Submitted to Contest #115

Connection LostFrances doesn’t answer her phone any more. It’ll just ring out. So I don’t call. Connection lost. She’s still in my contacts. I can’t bring myself to delete her. She’ll always be there in my memory. So she stays in my phone’s memory.Cancer took her. Aggressive, metastasised, spread everywhere. She was thirty-two. We used to talk while she was on chemo, then she graduated to radiotherapy and we there weren’t many of those precious calls left. They cut bits off her, trying to help. Her breasts, then her internal baby-making...

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2nd career writer

Shortlisted 2 stories ⭐️

Contest #125
Late Forever, Amen – read story
Contest #119
Legacy – read story