Steve Bourne

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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“The Blood” by Steve Bourne

Submitted to Contest #272

It started with my parents. Doesn’t it always? Or, more precisely with my father. If he’d been irascible and bad tempered before, he was positively cantankerous and violent after he came back from Trafalgar, sporting a crutch, a missing a foot and a naval pension which he strictly didn’t need. Mother was unable to conceive after she had me and Father took this as a personal affront, further darkening his already pitch-black moods. Consequently, he largely ignored Mother and treated me with contempt as if it was my fault I wasn’t a son,...

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“Hollywood Tail” by Steve Bourne

Submitted to Contest #260

I only worked with her the one time, but we was instant friends from the start, and she’ll tell you the same. During the days when she couldn’t face the cam’ras, when her insecur’ties et up her confidence and her fears cramped her gut so much as she found she couldn’t function prop’ly, we’d crawl under the set and she’d tell me about her life and her days before becomin’ famous. I ain’t never worked with anyone more famous than her. Sometimes Ralph and young Tommy come with us, they share a love of animals; dogs and horses mainly. Tom...

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“Now & Then” by Steve Bourne

Submitted to Contest #258

Then: Aihangela carefully removes the brown cardboard envelope from the archive wrapper. Despite being enclosed in acid free tissue, time has still faded the edges and she wonders whether it will be suitable, but reasons she can’t go through the hassle of contacting Mieki in Chancellery to see if he can find another one at such short notice Fortunately, she kept the ancient printer from a previous occasion - using her techTab to avoid Mieki’s scrutiny - and the resultant label, with its address and obsolete barcode is waiting on her de...

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