Unknown User

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Crowded Solitude” by Unknown User

Submitted to Contest #17

The last box unpacked. He displayed the last toy on a storage box he’d flipped over for a table and plopped on the chaise lounge in his living room. “Finally, peace.”A woman’s scream — a gunshot. Miles leaped out of the chaise lounge and cracked the curtains open. People laughing and splashing in the swimming pool of the Purple Pelican Apartments. A soft tap on the front door snapped him away from the curtain. He inched the door open and found a woman in her thirties balancing a covered dish. “Happy Thanksgiving, neighbor, I’m ...

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“Incessant” by Unknown User

Submitted to Contest #16

Joseph Newmaker inched the door of his home closed for the last time — the divorce had been brutal. Ostracized not only by his friends and colleagues but by his ten-year-old son. He padded out of town with his son’s school bag slung over his shoulder and stuffed with necessities. He ambled along the shoulder of a stretch of desert highway in a soiled business suit and a pair of jogging sneakers until a middle-aged man in an old pickup truck pulled over beside him. “Where to?” the man said with trepidation in his tone.“S...

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Author bio

I love to read and write. I have so many novels to rewrite and fear I will never finish, but in the meantime, I have found a joy in writing short stories and flash fiction.