William Elbert

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“A Bland Life” by William Elbert

Submitted to Contest #44

In the early morning when I looked in the mirror and was met with a scorching house fire. I became awash with flames and the slow realization that I, in fact, lived a rather bland life. I walked the same neighborhood and looked out the same window every day. I cooked and ate the same meals. I slept in the same bed and washed my face in the same sink. Nothing had or would change about my environment if I let it, except that the inferno had trapped me inside the four beige walls and white porcelain fixtures. I always told myself that one day I...

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“That might be so, but we all have to try in life. ” by William Elbert

Submitted to Contest #25

The painting of a landscape unfolded before me as the sunrise lit the shadows and brought forth the sad and ugly world that we inhabit. The sun brought the dark asphalt to bear that was once melted into the horizon and was only exposed by my moving headlights and the occasional liquor store or gas station. I remember thinking to myself that there was something to be said about the sun never setting on the British Empire and how they always quip "The sun will rise tomorrow and the world will turn," but frankly, I wasn't in the headspace to ma...

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“A Stranger in the Snow” by William Elbert

Submitted to Contest #23

The cabin sat abandoned in the woods for decades. It was once a haven for weekend fishing trips and annual hunting retreats but now just collects dust and dead leaves. It was not a grand cabin; rather the opposite. It was only three rooms. Sizable by some cabin standards, but this was the Appalachian mountains after all, where money flows as freely as the lakes and is as deep as the cave systems. This cabin, in particular, was an original homesteader trapping cabin and thus held the title of being ingrained in local history and is even ...

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