Ryan Wickel

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“Breakfast at 4:15” by Ryan Wickel

Ashley walked through the front door quietly and quickly with the grace and ease of a cheetah capturing a gazelle. She made her way upstairs and into the bathroom to shower which thankfully made no noise so she did not have to adjust her natural flow in order to prevent waking anyone. The time was 3:30 AM and she had just returned from a run and wanted to bathe before making breakfast. Ashley was never much for sleeping seeing it largely as a colossal waste of time which ma...

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“Again” by Ryan Wickel

I worked in the public library at the time with each day much as it was the day before. Circulation staff, those that interacted the most with the general public, arrived to work an hour prior to the designated time of opening. The procedural tasks deemed necessary for minimal operation were carried out during this blissfully quiet hour. An hour where you could lose yourself in tasks and consequently not rush. I find myself wandering the stacks with a list in one hand of pa...

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“Must I?” by Ryan Wickel

I am walking the neighborhood I live in and the cold air pierces through my overly large sweater. "I don't want to do this. I can't go through with it," I say these words out loud. My emotions are overwhelming me like the initial formation of a tsunami. All I want is to run away. To  be honest, that is all I have wanted, no yearned for, for quite some time. I stay in part because I believe it is what God wants me do, meaning that He has not released me from this torment yet but maybe I am ...

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“My Secret Muse” by Ryan Wickel

Annette sat in her seat awaiting all the familiar sounds of a train preparing to leave the station. Her senses remained on an anxious edge almost as if the train might not run today. During her wait, her mind wandered to a conversation from earlier in the day."Annette. It is weird to walk an hour just to take a train for ninety minutes to a place for you to walk another hour only to turn back ar...

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