Steve Roberts

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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ā€œThis is the way the party ends...ā€ by Steve Roberts

Submitted to Contest #93

My Grandpa always said he could remember exactly where he was when Kennedy was shot. My Dad talked about where he was when the Towers came down on 9/11. I will always remember where I was the day the aliens invaded. I was at a partyā€”more specifically, a party I wasnā€™t invited to, or really supposed to be at. Now, Iā€™ll be honest, Iā€™ve always viewed parties as a place to have fun, or more importantly, a place to meet girls. At least that was how I imagined them, since the type of people I hung out with were never invited to partiesā€¦ includin...

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ā€œSTARFALLā€ by Steve Roberts

Submitted to Contest #92

ļ»æSix-billion. Thatā€™s a pretty large number. There are six-billion acres of land in the entire North American continent. If you line up six-billion pennies, it will circle the Earth three times. ļ»æGalapagos Tortoises have an average lifespan of about six-billion seconds. And when STARFALL took place, six-billion people died instantly. Of course, it wasnā€™t a star, and it didnā€™t fall. But they called it that anyway. One-trillion metric tons of rockā€¦ about the same size as Marsā€™ inner moon, Phobos. When astronomers first spotted it, it was a pal...

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ā€œLove in the Time of Zombies (an Amish Romance Zombie Apocalypse tale)ā€ by Steve Roberts

Submitted to Contest #60

Joseph Yoder wiped the sweat from his forehead as he looked out over his fields. His fields... he rolled that phrase around his mind a few times. The rich black soil he'd been slaving to plow was hisā€”but it was not something he had looked forward to owning. Heā€™d had to take the farm over when his Dat passed a few weeks ago. Heā€™d stepped up to run the seventy-five acres himself, just to support his Mamm and sisters, Ā Heā€™d just put the last seed in the ground for his first crop of feed cornā€”it had taken a lot of effort, but he was please...

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ā€œThe Chaseā€ by Steve Roberts

ā­ļø Shortlisted for Contest #7

Bummer!I could hear dogs in the distance. They were louder than they had been a few minutes ago. My breath came in thick gasps, pain stitching my side as I fought for air.I hadnā€™t run this far in years.As I ducked under a low branch the lower edge painfully scraped the top of my head.Ā ā€˜Who am I kidding?ā€™Ā I thought to myself,Ā ā€˜Iā€™ve never ran this far.ā€™Ā I topped out the hill and slowed my pace to a walk, giving one last glance behind me before I started down the other side. I could still hear the dogs, but couldnā€™t see them...

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Author bio

STEVE C. ROBERTS lives in Central Missouri with his wife and four children. He is a professional teacher and counselor, and has spent over twenty years in the Prison ministry, as well as serving in various other capacities in his home Church. Steve's fictional works include several Christian Fiction novels, including; the "Men of the Heart" series: Kindled Love, Sparks of Affection, Flames of Endearment, and Light of Devotion as well as Flight Cancelled: A Christmas Romance. His non-fiction writings include Mighty Men: Lessons for the Christian Soldier, and several other educational and devotional works. Steve has also published several Young Adult fiction novels, (previously under S. Roberts,) including Hunted: On the Run, and Hunted: Hunters and Hunted, as well as his latest release, The Killing Field. Visit Steve at www.SteveRobertsAuthor.com

Shortlisted 1 story ā­ļø

Contest #7
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