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Robert Cherny

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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Two Feisty Kids

Submitted to Contest #104

Dr. Lenny strode from the soccer fields to the town’s only ice cream shop, followed by a gaggle of pre-teen soccer players and their mothers. As the team’s new doctor, he had promised them that he would treat them to ice cream every time they won a home game. They had been winning consistently, and this parade had become a common sight. The shopkeepers waved as the boisterous entourage passed their stores. Dr. Lenny led the parade dragging the wheeled first aid kit that he took to the games. He had only returned home a few months ago to join...

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Hurricane Season

Submitted to Contest #104

Class Five hurricanes are not to be trifled with even when you live inland, out of the evacuation zone, or even when your home is located in the area where the evacuees seek shelter. Roger was well aware of this and had carefully prepared for hurricane season. The disastrous hurricane season of 2004 followed by monsters in 2005 and 2006 had taught him his lesson. Still, with most of his family remaining up north, he tried to keep a level head about all this. He had issued his family the following guidelines to assure them that he really did ...

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Junior

Submitted to Contest #103

TW: suicide Junior entered the house where he had grown up, not knowing what to expect. His father had committed suicide yesterday. The body had been discovered by the health care worker who visited him three days a week. Senior’s health had been deteriorating for the last year. Junior was not surprised that Senior decided to deny the grim reaper the pleasure of torturing him as he slowly lost control of his bodily functions. The fact that Senior had said as much in his suicide note affirmed what Junior had suspected for months. Both of Seni...

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Birth and Death

Submitted to Contest #102

TW: rape, violence, death of a child WRITING CONTEST #251: To Kill a Mockingbird Write a story about someone losing faith in an institution. This is a work of fiction. Birth and Death I am an urban park ranger. I patrol the city’s parks. I cover the parks in a ten-block radius from downtown. I have been doing this for ten years. One part of my job is to kick the drunks and druggies off the park benches in the morning before the commuters coming from the subway stations see them. Ever since the legislature cut all ...

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Twenty years

Submitted to Contest #101

Reedsy Writing Contest #250: Antanaclasis Write about a character doing something they’ve done hundreds of times — only this time, it’s taken on a new meaning. Twenty years. For twenty years, he had driven the same route, more or less, to and from work. The starting point and the ending point were the same, but the process kept changing. Twenty years of fifty weeks a year, after deducting vacations, five days per week is five thousand workdays. Deduct holidays and days spent going directly to a job site and not to the office, and that ...

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Fishy Dinner

Submitted to Contest #100

REEDSY WRITING CONTEST #249: Breaking Bread Start or end your story with two characters sitting down for a meal. The man, seated with his back to a large tree, its roots shielding him on three sides, hastily dropped the raw fish he was eating to grab his rifle. The woman who stood before him wore the uniform of the enemy. Her rifle, capable of shooting much further than the one he carried, was casually slung over her shoulder, across her back, signaling that she didn’t consider him a threat. The string of fish that hung from her belt held ...

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Nuclear Option

Submitted to Contest #99

Reedsy Prompt June 18, 2021: Begin your story with somebody watching the sunrise or sunset. Daybreak had never been his friend. But, of course, that didn’t mean much since he had no friends. The glow of the false dawn in the east partially obscured by the outer bands of an oncoming hurricane arrived at a particularly inopportune time. He had spent every night for the last five years searching the waters of the South Carolina coast for a large metal fish, and he had found it. Even more improbable than finding the “artifact” was that it curr...

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