Terry Patterson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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5 Stories

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“THE NOBLE ART” by Terry Patterson

Submitted to Contest #206

THE NOBLE ART Walking slowly through the huge crowd of screaming people Danny Wellard made his way towards the ring. His mind was flooded with things from his past. Would he be able to go through with it? Or would he cower away like he’d done in the past? He felt the urge to run and needed to use the toilet again, but it was too late to turn back. Closer and closer he got to the ring led by his coach Joe Myers, and his second Eric Clarke who kept on giving him encouragement and a comforting rub of his shoulders. When they reached the rin...

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“BOOKS AND TELLY” by Terry Patterson

Submitted to Contest #102

BOOKS AND TELLY By Terry Patterson 2021 The summer holidays were always a time for adventure when I was a boy. I loved reading and of the many books I had read, Scott of the Antarctic was still my favourite. The story of Robert Falcon Scotts I’ll fated journey to reach the South Pole before his rival Roald Amundsen was a thing of legend. It stirred the heart of every Englishman with the courage of all those on that fateful journey and what they endured. If Scott had eaten the ponies donated by school children for the expedi...

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“Inside the Square Circle” by Terry Patterson

Submitted to Contest #95

INSIDE THE SQUARE CIRCLE Walking up front street past the Esso garage in North Shields, three miles past Newcastle upon Tyne the smoke from the coal fires rose up through chimney's on the houses of the notorious Ridges Estate climbed high into the sky. The houses had been built to house the fishermen and shipyard workers in the town in 1948 after the outbreak of Tuberculosis and other diseases caused by poor living conditions forced the council to build a new housing estate. The smell caught the back Terry’s throat as he cro...

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“THE BIG HOUSE” by Terry Patterson

Submitted to Contest #68

THE BIG HOUSE It had been twenty four years since she’d last see it but the place looked exactly the same. The Big House on the Northumberland coast line was originally built in 1862 by Robert Burton. He was a renowned brick maker by trade and had an extensive business. Sir Thomas Edwards the Conservative MP for Blyth commissioned Burton to build the Gothic looking facade in 1858. Georgian styled buildings were very popular at that time and Sir Thomas liked the style of the House of Parliament in London and churches of that p...

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“TIDAL WAVES” by Terry Patterson

Submitted to Contest #68

TIDAL WAVES The wind from the North Sea could chill a man to the bone but it didn’t deter Jimmy Latimore and Tom Hadaway as they both looked out onto an almost orange red sky. Tom pulled up the collar of his heavy reefer jacket and took hold of the peak on his cap pulling it over his brow to stop it from blowing away. They took each step more slowly these days as they headed down onto the quayside something that they had done for over sixty years as friends. Nothing had really changed on the River as they stood on the old libra...

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