Tommy Goround

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2022

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“The True History of Man” by Tommy Goround

The True History of ManMy Grandma usually chased after her convicts like they were late for rent, knocking on doors, smiling so sweetly, saying she needed ‘To get them to school.’ You see, she used to be a teacher. Must have gotten bored and decided to meet them on their home turf for the ‘Office of Probation’. She often brought them home, 'hired Guys' like Brandon. He went up the shaky aluminum ladder, holding up to four stacks of roof tile on his shoulder. Grandma’s prisoners wer...

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“Give Yourself Away” by Tommy Goround

The smell of the Yellowstone caldera is an Easter Egg not found. The smell of decaying earth in sulphur, the aching bolis surrounded by pine plantations -- there are hiccups in the settlings. How ever many eons it took to puddle and vascilate, that man's footprints follow dinosaurs, that the natives and their antecedents give humble reverence to the ground.Old faithful makes no fists.A man walks his mixed breed dog down the boardwalk. Like two inches of straight-cut could shield th...

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“Scarlett, the helpful little Stop Sign” by Tommy Goround

Scarlett was pressed out in San Quentin by a lovely machine operator that refused to pay his taxes. She was swaddled in a foamy gown with masking tape berets. Delivered by post to the Stanislaus Country Court house. Three maintenance people took her raising as very serious, she was seated in a junior bucket, secured by gravel and the Paris Plaster. She was asked to lean a little to the left and then the right – The finishing department would take out their rulers and balancing stick, exclaiming: “That’s it. Just Right.”

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Author bio

Research: Ancient Languages, History, and foibles.