Scott Allen

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2023

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“A Sadly Common Scandal” by Scott Allen

Submitted to Contest #223

It was a crisp fall afternoon at Chalmer University. He was at his favorite bookstore/ coffee shop and was sitting at one of the tables that hugged the expansive wall of windows at the front of the store. Expertly drawn cartoons of books and famous literary characters filled the majority of the glass. Through a gap between Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter, he watched as multicolored leaves swooped and swirled through the air. A young woman crossed his field of view, and the wind was strong enough to make her long inky black hair flick behind...

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“Solitary Confinement” by Scott Allen

Submitted to Contest #219

The weirdest thing about where they took him was that it wasn’t really a containment facility. He was actually a little offended that he was so low profile to them that they threw him in the back of what looked like a Toyota 4Runner from the 90’s without a second thought. Nothing in this tract of the globe was ultramodern(not structures, technology, or beliefs), but he never pictured war to be so…. improvised. When he signed up he always pictured war to be more straightforward than it actually was, at least in the Middle East. Instead of a s...

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