Robert Hart

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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3 Stories

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“Colette's End” by Robert Hart

Submitted to Contest #234

I remember it all: the incessant questions sometimes yelled, others whispered into my ear, the beatings, the suffocations, the rapes. But the details don’t matter. What matters is … I held my silence. During each session, I drifted from my body to watch and not speak. The interrogation was days long – two, three … four? I lost count. In the grey dawn of a morning, the cell door cras...

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“All I have is the wind” by Robert Hart

Submitted to Contest #206

The wind’s susurration in the abandoned streets, the distant hiss and drag of the shingle beach are my world. The long dry fountain in the square hosts no bird, no lizard. Through the drowse days, the sun chases limping shadows through my laneways, beneath my arches. Still sleeping, a shiver rouses me partway from the doze; recognition trembles at the edge of consciousness, but sensation sinks to emptiness.

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“Return to Ravensbrück” by Robert Hart

Submitted to Contest #164

Return to Ravensbrück I looked down at the letter inviting me by name, Frida Schmidt to the rededication of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp memorial. The letter’s edge wobbled, exaggerating my trembling hand. I groped behind me, seeking the chair back, and fell on to the seat. As a sixteen-year-old, I had run from those gates into the spring of 1945 when the SS guards herded several tho...

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Author bio

I was educated in the UK but emigrated to Australia. I live in Brisbane with my wife, three ginger cats and a black labradoodle. I love classical music (particularly opera).