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Robert Schueller

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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It's What You Know

Robert Schueller

Submitted to Contest #39

My two sisters, Jaquilla and Alicia, sleep beside me in bed below a high window where I watch people’s feet pass by – but nobody’s there now. I once saw some twinkling stars there in the summertime when kids shot the streetlights out. They get shot at in winter too, though with all the coal furnaces, the air gets too thick to see the moon clearly. So why one bright star, now? I wet my bed last week; my mom threatened to beat me if I did it again, so I stay awake a lot. I hate her – she’s never here and when she is, she doesn’t pay atten...

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Threw Out the Aegis by Bob Schueller April 22, 2020

Robert Schueller

Submitted to Contest #38

Because of. Instead of. In order for. Despite. Even though. Surely, while, after and a dozen more prefixes of “TheCoronaVirus” are daily topics with neighbors, TV and within our heads. Bored again at midnight, I think it’s Wednesday, a full moon, but I can’t sleep while low frequency audio and incessant footsteps cascade from the ceiling. There’s no use going up there; the last time, that guy shrugged while hurling the door at me and thumping the deadbolt. I convince myself to lay motionless under half covers, and to imagine arriv...

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