Szymon Kutchin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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3 Stories

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“Lights, Camera, Action” by Szymon Kutchin

Submitted to Contest #82

In the beginning, it was nice. There was less energy loss in the city. The lights sensed when someone was near and would brighten the path around people, then dim them after the person had left. One would think that this would increase crime since they thought that the lights would dim after someone was in the same place for an extended period. However, the sensors on the lights detected a person’s shape, movements, no matter how small, and also communicated with other lights to provide enough information on a person’s movements. They also w...

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“Farewell Gran” by Szymon Kutchin

Submitted to Contest #79

My gran said that my parents and sister died because a drunk driver ran into their car late one foggy night. They died when I was still only a few weeks old. She was watching me while my parents took my sister Silvia to a rock concert near the state border. Gran said that they had died before they even got to the concert hall. Her cracked voice always mimicked the conversations of prior. “They went on Thursday night. The concert was that Friday night, but they had to travel a few hundred miles South. The cops said that they died only about a...

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“The Arizona Tundra” by Szymon Kutchin

Submitted to Contest #77

Szymon Kutchin The Arizona Tundra Before the snow, locals were worrying about the Arizona landscape burning in the July heat. Now, they were dwelling in tunnels made of snow. Almost everyone was ill prepared. Living went from one harsh extreme to another harsher one. The snow had come out of the blue. It was the first snow in Phoenix for several years. At first several thought that it was the hazy grey ash from one of the fires that always seemed nearby. The ashen smoke always dropped the temperature a few degrees, so it seemed logical, but...

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