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Adam Hill

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

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Wrapped

Adam Hill

WRAPPED Leo closed his locker and we started down the hall. “So, how bad was it?”I didn’t answer right away. My backpack felt heavier than usual.“Worse than mine?”“Probably.”He whistled and shook his head, worried but oddly relieved. “That’s not great,” he said. “They’re looking for math guys.”“I’m supposed to be one.”“You still could be.”He forced a smile. One of those quiet, practiced smiles people give when they know you’re not good enough but are too afraid to say it.I didn’t smile back.A few students walked ahead of us, but silence gr...

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My Stupid Journal

Adam Hill

Submitted to Contest #306

10/2 It's Monday. I'm supposed to write a story "using a series of diary or journal entries" for my English class. I think it's stupid. What story am I going to tell? I don't have any stories. What am I going to write about? School? Home? Sports? Girls? How I have a crush on a girl and have no idea how to handle it or what to do about it because my parents never talked to me about things like that? Or maybe about how I'm awkward and borderline creepy about it? How I drive by her house all the time and try to force eye contact in the hallway ...

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Split Tim

Adam Hill

Submitted to Contest #167

Tim waited alone in the gray observation room. A basket of objects sat on the table in front of him. "Good morning, Tim," the doctor said, closing the door behind him. "I heard the procedure went well." "That's what they told me." "Good!" The doctor smiled. "Those seizures should be under control." He sat down, picked a few items out of the basket and placed them in his lap, out of Tim's view. "Now, as we've discussed, there may be some peculiar new mental functioning," the doctor explained. "We're going to test that this&n...

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