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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022
Submitted to Contest #253
Ernie had always been old. Not physically–although he rather enjoyed his childhood when his joints were well oiled–but mentally. Back then in the 2020’s, he was drinking black coffee by age 10 and insisted on completing the New York Times crossword before running off to kindergarten (with a mask on of course). His name even suggested that an old man would sprout from the 5 letter word. Among the advancing tech, Ernie reminisces more and more on how he used to step out onto his apartment balcony, with caffeine in hand, and read for hours...
She looks out at all the bleary-eyed, devil-snatched people and thinks:what brought them to this unique subpart of hell? They all have messed up backstories. And they all lost themselves in the never-ending game that multiplies in evil forces: gambling. The woman scribbles all of her judgemental thoughts down in the journal she's kept for 42 years now. The pages hold memories that a human mind would forget. It doesn't gossip to other literature so it quickly became the most trustworthy friend the woman has known. She is a psychiatrist...
This is my fifth glass of wine. Well, not exactly. If a random group of strangers gave you a glass of crimson red liquid that looked close enough to wine but you weren’t so sure, since you have no idea who the person giving you the wine is, do you take the cup? Of course you do, but you fake it. When you’ve been drunk hundreds of times ,like me, drugged even, naturally you can act the part. I was born with a wine goblet in my hand after all. So when I was out in the cold, frigid Alaska wind, begging for anyone to take m...
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