Tony Mills

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Midnight Cafe” by Tony Mills

Submitted to Contest #260

Taggert shuffles through the door in the dead pouring night. A thunderclap mutes the chime above the entrance to the greasy spoon off highway nowhere. He wags the wet off and stomps his shoes on the welcome mat. He spots McNeil at a back booth, checks the perimeter head down, strides over squelchy footsmacks on the tile with his trench coat collar up. “Jesus,” McNeil says, dumps sugar in his coffee, shrugs a hand in disbelief, “took you long enough.” Taggert frowns down the man, shuffles off the wet coat and throws it on the hook next to the...

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“Alter Echo” by Tony Mills

Submitted to Contest #169

Eight days Kenneth saved up money from his day job and rented a cabin in the woods somewhere on the North Shore of Lake Superior for a week in November. But the sky blew just the last of the leaves from trees and spared him the early white of years before. Kenneth sounded nameless in the ears of other writers. A modest list of form rejections splayed around their file in his inbox. Quick l...

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“Murder and Over Again” by Tony Mills

Submitted to Contest #168

Trent faces the window from the dining car as the tube streams through the Alsatian countryside. The eyes face out but send no message to the mind save the mere spring scenery, the mind at last facing elsewhere, save the shakeless sense that he’s done this all before. “More coffee, sir?” and there that brings him to the moment. Trent looks up to the gently Punjabi man, softly bowed, twice removed from his native...

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Author bio

Former theologian turned fiction writer, mostly horror and literary pulp.