Thomas Mai

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

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“The Hag” by Thomas Mai

Submitted to Contest #60

"Who's there?" Booms a feeble broken voice. Joe flats himself on the floor of the half-collapsed convenience store. Why is this happening? He takes a deep breath and with it a quite fat amount of dust from the pavement. ACHOO! "Ah, there you are!" Joe crawls towards the exit when two purple crocs step in to block his way. Slowly, as if simmering terror, Joe's eyes climb up from the crocs on a pair of pink socks which apparently have been pulled over a pair of pantyhose. In turn, the pantyhose goes up into a dark green skirt made o...

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“Dog Day” by Thomas Mai

Submitted to Contest #41

It’s a hot and sticky day. One of those that makes your clothes damp and clinging on your skin like leeches, sipping sweat, and soul out of you. There’s a foul smell riding the light breeze that crawls on the street, whistling through cracks and holes; it’s the morning dragon breath of a dying god.The new world is enveloped in a noisy silence, whether it is not the booming wind that squeezes through a fissure, it's the eerie screech of iron or the trampling collapse of walls and buildings into rubble.Joe is sitting on a rusty white chair in ...

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Author bio

Tom was born on the hills between Milan and the Alps. He's been Down Under, at the crossroad, in the middle of nowhere, among emus and kangaroos. Now, he lives with his better half and kids in the Butterfly Kingdom, on the Island of Formosa. He's an avid reader and a professional, full-time day-dreamer.