Tom Bombadil

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023

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“Bricks” by Tom Bombadil

Submitted to Contest #191

Let us be clear: it is not their fault. Not entirely. It’s what comes of throwing darts at a world map for twelve years; of a History channel besotted with ancient aliens, buried treasure, and celebrity pawnbrokers – each, one would have thought, less likely to exist than the last; of uninspired and uninformed teaching; of an arrogant and myopic zeitgeist, glutted with adipose information, lustily discarding the common inheritance of mankind for the evening news and a bowl of red stew. My phone rings. It’s 5:15. “Mr. Delano? Yes, good mo...

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“The First Idol” by Tom Bombadil

🏆 Winner of Contest #188

“Stop daydreaming Mr. Delano.” In a moment, Mrs. Frampton, subjecting the tender wallflower of my affection to the grotesque spotlight of her own indifference, made cease the contemplation of my life’s own end, the one theme of my existence: Andrea Taylor. It’s the Spring of 2005; I am a 7th grader at Fort Sumter Middle School, home of the Trojans. Andrea sits enthroned one row ahead, three columns to my right. I have mixed feelings about this, for while it affords me an almost uninterrupted view of her during second and fifth period, it...

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Author bio

Setting: Middle-Earth Characters: Dickensian Plot: Not a huge fan, thus far. Hoping for a good ending. Style: Victorian Themes: Good vs. Evil; Truth in Post-modernity; Love; Coming-of-Age. Recurring Motifs: Subtitled Youtube videos of huskies arguing with their owners about wearing a leash. Tone: Sarcastic. Hopeful. POV: First-person omniscient.

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Contest #188
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