Will Bussey

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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“Dreams of Woody Guthrie” by Will Bussey

Submitted to Contest #26

Do you ever feel like you’re doing “It” wrong? But like, you don’t even know what “It” is? Up until that point you’ve always been able to pinpoint your faults with scary accuracy, like a self-deprecating laser beam. This is different though. This is something new, something unidentifiable. Something you can’t change. Haha, yeah, me neither. Cool.Anyway, I’m a musician. You might have heard of me? Lorna Padilla? I run with a little outfit here in New Haven called “Go Folk Yourself”. We mostly do folk, obviously. I fell in love with it when I ...

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“A Space of Her Own” by Will Bussey

Submitted to Contest #25

Midnight, December 31st. Florence watches the clock tick over to 00:01 and already feels crushed by a countdown of her own invention. She blames herself for not being more proactive, but in her defence, who knew it would be this hard to leave your childhood home behind? Three hundred and sixty four days ago she made the decision to try again. But now she’s lying in the same bed she’s had since she was old enough to sleep in one, staring at the same walls that have always kept her safe from the “big bad outside world”, as her mum calls it.Wha...

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“Variables” by Will Bussey

Submitted to Contest #24

‘Do you believe in aliens?’ Lix asked.‘What are you talking about? Of course I do! We’re aliens!’ Phaz shot back.‘How do you figure?’‘If we’re on a different planet, then we are the aliens.’ Lix ponders this, rubbing his three-fingered hands together for a moment before responding.‘I’m not sure that’s how it works. We’re not even on a planet. Besides, I think you need to have, like, tentacles or something.’‘You’ve been watching too many human movies.’‘Are humans aliens?’‘To us, I suppose they are.’‘But they don’t have tentacles. Unless ...

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Write fast, edit hard, bad girls do it well. 22/English/I write TV and short stories