Spencer Pinkus

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Before the Trial ” by Spencer Pinkus

Submitted to Contest #52

Franz Kafka had been mulling over the opening of his next story for several hours when it happened. He had been struggling to find a way to express the inexpressible, to give voice to that feeling of bewilderment no amount of schooling or adult experience can prepare you for - that uncanny state of existence - when, like a somnambulist, he found himself stumbling and fumbling his way towards the door, his reddened eyes and aching limbs burning from overwork and exhaustion. Stretching out his left arm, he grabbed the brass knob and, wit...

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“Caught in the Narrative ” by Spencer Pinkus

Submitted to Contest #51

11.12.2008 Dear Editor,You know you’re getting old when you start to repeat the same old stories. It’s not because your memory is starting to fade. On the contrary, it’s because your memory is getting too good. You’ve told your stories so many times they’ve become ingrained in your memory. You can relate to that, can’t you?Yours,A Subscriber12.12.2008Dear Editor,I was once selected to be the parliamentary candidate for St Ives. I was fresh out of university at the time and full of energy. I would have...

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“Where the Birds Come to Nest” by Spencer Pinkus

Submitted to Contest #50

How did I end up here? Literally, how did I end up here? A fully grown man hiding in his grandparents’ treehouse like a naughty school boy in the middle of a heatwave. It’s ridiculous. Up here, where the birds come to nest, the branches are thick and tangled, and the towering trunk reaches high into the sky. *We arrived at Grandmother Stevenson’s Hertfordshire house at ten o’clock this morning. It was my wife’s idea. She had decided that after all the troubles of the past few months what we really needed was to...

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Author bio

Some of my favourite works of literature (in no particular order): Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway Ian McEwan, The Child in Time Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London Shakespeare, King Lear Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint Alan Bennett, The Lady in the Van Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest