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Andrew Gibbons

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2023

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Our Son

Submitted to Contest #224

Content Note: This is a story placed during contemporary times, in a fictional America at war with itself. At its core it’s a family war drama, that being said this story will mention and describe gun/knife violence, and what one would describe as evil actions against men, women, children, elderly and disabled (nothing sexual at all). War crimes, plain and simple. I feel they are necessary when discussing a mature theme like war and how it changes people, how we think of family. My intent was to do so in an artistically necessary and tastefu...

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Extraordinary Occurrences and Unusual Happenings

Submitted to Contest #223

Content Note: Mention of child murder and a public hanging/execution in the form of a newspaper headline/excerpt.Hyde hiked the strap of his book bag farther up his shoulder and turned the crumpled piece of paper upside down. Only now realizing he had no frame of reference beyond the hurried pointing of a busy librarian during final exams. He was fortunate she had taken the time to do even that, let alone sketch him a map. But Hyde was a polite young man, who waited patiently and could be relied upon to, when necessary, crack a toothy grin o...

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