Wesley Demers

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2023

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“Sunchoke” by Wesley Demers

Submitted to Contest #288

Blue is the rainless sky which bends around him. Brown is the withering grass which crackles underfoot. Sharp are bones which distend coriaceous skin. The stone ridge is hot against tired soles, and bony hands pressed firm against rough stone. He surveys the dusty valley. Yellow Sun screams heat and distorts air drooping above distant ridges. Desiccation silences the barren forest, except dying leaves rustle in a torrid breeze, and insects chirp weakly to nothing. He wipes his perspiring forehead with a dirty cloth, then suckles th...

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“Gray” by Wesley Demers

Submitted to Contest #258

On the horizon, a black plume of smoke rolling upwards into unending clouds. A soft breeze moaned over gentle hills, rattled dead trees, smelled of fire. Empty towns sprawled for miles, cracked roads, piles of wood and metal and plastic. He touched his stomach, then the ledge he rested on. Cold and jagged. His eyes flittered from exhaustion. It was April, maybe. He had emerged from the frigid months skeletal and near death. He ate canned foods from the prepared few, often unsealed and molding, but calories. Sick mammals, unable to run....

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