Wayne Scheer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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“One Hell of a Crazy Morning” by Wayne Scheer

One Hell of a Crazy Morning The craziness began when I woke up and quit my job. I had no idea what I was dreaming because as soon as my eyes popped open the dream dissolved like melting images in a Dali painting. Without thinking, I grabbed my cellphone from my nightstand and speed dialed my supervisor to tell him I was quitting my job.  Tom is also a friend and he offered me his honest reaction. "Go to hell, Robert. It's 4:30 in the damn morning." I thanked him for the time of day. "The reason I'm quitting," I said, "is becau...

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“Neighbors” by Wayne Scheer

Submitted to Contest #55

A few days after I moved to Atlanta about twenty years ago, I came home from my new teaching job at Georgia State to find my grass mowed and a lanky white man in his sixties wearing overalls and a straw hat, trimming my hedges.   "What are you doing?" I asked, jumping out of my car. My Chicago cynicism was showing. Why would a white man be mowing the lawn of a single black woman?  He took off his straw hat, displaying the remnants of white hair combed straight across his pink scalp, and offered a theatrical bow f...

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