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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020
Submitted to Contest #66
Here I was again, not that I did not know that I could not stay in my dreams forever, no matter how much I wish I could. Zackarias came through my little clay hut, and gave me a good lash with his leather whip. I flinched and got up. He looked me up and down with his grey half blind eyes in disgust. His long dirt caked hair barely clung to his sun burnt olive skin, and his dress shirt with ripped shorts smelled like dried cow dung. I could smell whiskey on him from a mile away, and together with the dung, and the whiskey, the smell ma...
Submitted to Contest #61
Gage Williamson was sitting on his bed in a small wooden room. It had only little lighting coming from the far most window. He sat wearing a black suit with a black tie, tears dripped from his eyes, wondering how his life could have such a tragedy, no matter how small it was compared to other people. He remembered how he had been on the sidewalk across from the local pub. A whiskey bottle was in his hand half drunken, And he felt as sick as a dog. He barely remembered hearing from his best friend's parents, how Marcus was dead. The la...
Submitted to Contest #57
Joshua was sitting in the mahogany chair set apart in the dark library, in front of him. A fire blazed igniting the room in a dreary light. He sat in wait with the lonely howling of the wind, and the pounding of the rain. "Tick, tock, tick, tock," said the grandfather clock as the chimes rang for twelve o'clock. He heard a noise coming from the western door below the haunted picture of his great-great-grandfather, Fergad the Fourth. He always hated that picture. For he was the one that started it. He was the one who made hi...
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