Robert Cartier

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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3 Stories

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“The Anomaly” by Robert Cartier

Submitted to Contest #58

The Anomaly It was a great ship. It was a generational ship. It was mankind’s last chance for survival. But more importantly, it was home. So if it’s home, why am I so afraid? I awoke to dark crew quarters, feeling a cold that was so brutally frigid, the cryo-sleep capsule had frost on the translucent cover, which made the world around me appear opaque. When the capsule’s cover slowly raised with a hiss, I realized that the frost was not why my world was dark. The entire department was dark. My name is Abigail Bridgers,...

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“The Night Pursuit” by Robert Cartier

Submitted to Contest #50

The Night Pursuit by R.S. Cartier We think we know what happens between the time we close our eyes, and the time we wake up in the morning. We couldn’t have been more wrong. It was 10:59 pm on the timeclock at Ray’s Pizza, when an exhausted Dameer Jackson stared intently at its white analog numbers, timecard in hand, wondering why in his mind, more than sixty seconds had already passed. “Go ahead,” muttered the gruff voice of his boss, who also doubled as the diner’s cook, chef hat, and all. “Plus I know your train leaves th...

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“Dark Mountain” by Robert Cartier

Submitted to Contest #6

Sometimes in life… you wonder if you should have just home. It was 5:30 PM and the road leading to Camp Fortune was long, cold and getting progressively darker. I had reached the start of the dense forest just as the sun began to set, the rich aroma of Evergreens and Pines pouring through the vents was almost overpowering. I was a couple of hours from my destination, where I was meeting up with my homies, who I haven’t seen all together in about two years. My rental was doing great on gas, so much so that in my five-hour drive getting ...

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