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Cameron Landers

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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Waking to music

Cameron Landers

Submitted to Contest #119

I was having some pleasant dreams, some gentle thoughts. I was watching an incredibly lovely young girl doing a springy dance on grassy hills as the sunlight seemed to chase, trying to catch her. I don’t remember dreaming music, but now I was, a lilting picolo sound, and yes, violins. I opened my eyes and searched for my clock, and it was time to rise up. That picolo still sounded, seeming to fade into silence.     I shook my head. I thought, “I must still be half asleep!” I opened my eyes as...

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A Farm Family and the Underground Railroad

Cameron Landers

Submitted to Contest #100

A farm family and the Underground Railroad We read this, and like a Steven Spielberg movie, the scene opens to a view of today’s Sarcoxie, Missouri. It is a small town where everyone knows everyone in town and strangers are greeted with a stare. We see a few cars driving around the circular grassy center, and a few folks walking in and out of main street’s shops.   Then, the camera view raise up into the sky, looking down at the town slowly fading into the misty clouds, and the letters 1838 appear, puffs up like a cumul...

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Skydiving is Hell

Cameron Landers

Submitted to Contest #93

  My cousin Jake manages “It’s a Party”. He comes up with ideas for people who got nothing better to do with their money. Some just want a disco set up and music going all night. He gets about 4,250 bucks for setting that up. He has set up a ferris wheel and a merry go round for 12 thou a night. Jake is always rollin’ in dough. He’s got about a dozen disc jockeys he can call, and a carnival of clowns to jazz things up, even a couple of nice looking strip teasers. I’ve even got a few bucks at those...

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