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Toby Ireland

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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The Black Mountain

Toby Ireland

Submitted to Contest #301

The invisible fingers of the cool morning breeze played the leafy trees as a lonely traveler moved through long grass coated with heavy dew. The sky was overcast, although occasional burst of sun provided a pleasant relief from the cold and wet. It all began so well for James. He actually loved these overcast misty summer mornings, adding a certain mystery to countryside and with the hope of hot sun later on. His boots were a problem though. His attempts to keep dry his well worn boots were wasted by his morning expedition through these...

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The beast of Landrinio

Toby Ireland

The sun scolded down on anything in its reach, any human, beast or insect and the glistening on-flowing river, eastwards, shimmered by like a mirage. Suddenly through the haze of the desert like temperature, burst the gargantuan frame of a beast that was both angry and well muscled in every department. In fact, the thing was horned and fiery eyes blazed red. It stopped its mad rush into the middle of the field and slowly turned its head towards me, curious. I cautiously watched the movements of the beast, its pointy sword like tusks at least...

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Shadows of a ghost

Toby Ireland

Submitted to Contest #55

We found ourselves in the Romanian - Slovakian town of Alesd in the region of Bihor in the Eastern part of Romania. 200 years after the Otommon empire killed off Romanian men, there were meadows and fields, so in 1821 when the empire had significantly weakened, they called on Slovakians and Chech people to come and work and live there in the country. So during the Austro - Hungarian empire, coming to Romania meant a much better life as everything was there for them.The rain had held off so far, on this warm, but grey Sunday morning in the mo...

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Building sand castles for charity

Toby Ireland

Submitted to Contest #54

‘No regrets’ spouted the words from the TV box as an advert about chocolate completed its 30 second cycle.'Again'. Ono sighed. He was sat on a small cushion meditating in the morning sun on the small terrace, when weirdly the TV had turned on by itself. New technology? He tried to ignore it as he focused on his meditation from the third floor apartment, while overlooking a grey solemn London in the year 2049.It was something about the words 'no regrets' that sent a shiver down his spine, a memory, perhaps and thought of regrets of how his li...

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Summer time blues

Toby Ireland

Eight year old Sera was what you would call a bit of a firey character, but definitely began the day with a shaky start. In fact, it was going to be one roller coaster of a day for little Romanian Sera. First, as soon as she was introduced to the adults who had arrived at the garden party, she uncharacteristically bent her head shyly towards the ground and then had even let the blue ice popsicle she held in her hand, melt in the hot mid afternoon sun. When everyone said hello she mumbled soft greetings in her native Romanian, 'Buna Ziua'...

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