Stephen Berg

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“Across and Beyond” by Stephen Berg

Submitted to Contest #8

It was the summer of ’86 and I had just finished my final exam. If I passed I’d be a qualified diesel mechanic.New Zealand mechanics were in demand worldwide and I was keen to travel. But not to anywhere anyone else was going, that was for sure. Mum lived in Perth and I wanted to spend Christmas with her and tell her where I was headed, she’d understand. I told Dad I was off to Perth to see her, but would be back soon. He didn’t mind too much, it had been a bitter divorce, but that was long ago—besides, he thought I’d be back in a fe...

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“A Versatile Man. by Stephen C Berg” by Stephen Berg

Submitted to Contest #2

Vincent van Nezla had a fetish. He preferred to call it a selective desire, but it was more than that. He also liked to party and, when in Paris, did so, with the gay set. His favourite party trick was to sabrage, or ‘neck’, a champagne bottle using a sabre. Most impressive, when done well. His Parisian friends all had fetishes too, of course, which is why he felt comfortable in their midst. Although his father’s head office was in Paris, their factory was in Reims—the family was in the glass manufacturing business. Five hundred years ago, i...

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