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Adam West

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

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STATIC (Save A Smile for the Firing Squad)

Submitted to Contest #243

I: Lateral Movement I’ve known how I’ll die for most of my life. It’s not a parlour trick, that’s just how it works now. Ever since we picked up the transmission and made the mistake of listening intently, everyone else knows when I'll die, and I know when they’ll die and how, just from looking at them. But they already know that. It’s not just death, though that does preoccupy a lot of people's thoughts. The transmission changed the way we experience time completely. Now, we sort of see our lives as one continuous moment, birth, death and...

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Her Sword

Submitted to Contest #242

She comes alive at night. A scroll of ridged and patterned paper, cautiously folded into the shape of a woman. Two-and-a-half towering metres of beauty and power and quiet judgement. By day, she’s stoic in her rightful place above us all, her hand stretched toward the ceiling, knelt in mock servitude as if she could ever be governed. At night, life explodes from her pages and she dances between the boundaries of her podium. We met here. Besides her sculptor’s musty flat, the Other Art Museum is the only place she’s ever seen. They brought...

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