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Big Pachino

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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The Burnout, The Librarian, The Rugrat, and The Milf

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #314

CW: Mature themes and references to sexual content. You can’t just help any kid anymore. You have to confiscate the needy ones. Trap them with gracious empathy. Bleed your aching compassion into their mushy-children souls. Be the intelligent savior they never knew they needed!Save the children!Please!Please Daddy!Please Mommy!Evelyn flashes back to a day in her life as her parental insecurity swims down her digestive tract and creates knots of uvula, saggy breath.“Life is meaningless,” Evelyn says with a hoarse voice, licking her fingers and...

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That Time I Taught My Friend a Forbidden Language

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #313

Contains sexual language, references to sexual activity, and mature themes. If you’re married and don’t have red hair in your beard. You’re probably going to get divorced.This isn’t a hair color thing. Even if your hair is ginger or black, your beard can always get redder if you know what I mean.If you’re already divorced. Check your beard for red hairs. Don’t have any? Know that 1 little red hair might have saved you from custody paperwork.Growing out that post-divorce depression beard might serve as a great tool for self-awareness.You shou...

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A Journey Into the Death of Us All

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #312

Your Basic Cup of Coffee in Prison.A cup of coffee fills to the brim of the steel mug and scrapes across the metal table as the robot arm passes it to you.Across the table in front of you is the AI Detective, who has a list of questions and will record your answers. The AI Detective has a TV screen and 4 fingered hands, arms, and feet that retract back into its box structure. When looking directly at the screen, there are tiny lights on the outer rim of the screen able to project or cause any image to trick your brain into hallucinating what...

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Restart to Install System Processing

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #312

Try telling the difference between the form and content of your consciousness, and you're gonna get lost in that bendy shape of yours…Your breath may choose where it goes…The thread of looping breath coming in through your nose…Can you find the symbols within your dreams?Can you find the rhythm and repetition running the code of this dream loop? Loop. Restart to install system processing. Awake. 0 Point. Copy free energy baseline using code restart to install system processing. Breathe. Loop. Restart to install system processing. Sleep. 1 pe...

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The Who Matrix Loop.

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #312

(Themes of suicide and substance use) It's too easy to say "our brain hallucinates reality," let's try our brain stem on for size. TED!The structure of your medulla oblongata is breathing the outer rim of your dominant unconscious that started in the fleshy sack of your mom and now lets you have this great chance to fuck it all up again. Let the time loop serve you well. Find your place in the loop and you'll get some motion. Pick it up and you'll think you're finally telling a "real" story. Again, the loop is "real" with the space that you ...

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No Ragerets

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #311

I should let you know this story might get me fired…But let me tell you, "I regeret nothing." I hated homework because I couldn’t read for more than 5 minutes without thinking about my own stories. I wanted to make reality better because my life was the hardest, and no one would ever understand me. So I would daydream in loops of my own making about everything that wasn’t- and question everything that was.My feet would run-dizzy to find my brain. My gut would leap out of my eyes and look for clues about questions I didn’t even know I was ask...

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The Alchemists' Cave

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #311

The Alchemist never leaves home. Always nesting. People come and go. But the Alchemist stays home, in their cave. Never to come out until dreams come knocking…Imagine you can get past the tip of your nose and see that all around you is the same light. Imagine you are blessed with this miraculous ability to manage your temperature up and down at will, with the weight and space of how you teach yourself to breathe. Try inviting your breath to join you on your Odyssey. Learn the motion of your breath’s momentum. It’s inbetween what you can touc...

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Take that Anger to Your Grave

Big Pachino

Submitted to Contest #255

***Warning: This story contains themes of mental health issues, substance abuse, suicide, physical violence and gore.***Gray stones built the path running along the Foxwood cemetery in a labyrinth maze. You could get dizzy without a map. Everyone got one at the funeral. The office keeps maps handy in case you need one. But you gotta have a pamphlet to the funeral to get a map, so I'm going to have to make my way through blind.I wasn't invited, because the family blames me for mom getting sick.Let me tell you, cemeteries are all mad filthy ca...

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