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Ed Tasca

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

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Isabella, stop saying you're dead

Isabella, stop saying you're dead.Ed Tasca This story took place over thirty years ago. And I disobeyed my father by not telling it until now. So this writing is an act of guilt and redemption.The sky wasn't bright and clear with stars peeking out of the twilight. Instead, it loomed darkly, solemnly as though scripted for a funeral. I was sandy from sitting in thought on Brigantine beach when I got up and removed the top layer of my clothing, baggy shorts and a home-cut pullover top. I tossed them over my sandals and bag alongside me in the...

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The Unicorn in the Garden of Eden

The Unicorn In the Garden of Eden Ed TascaOne day as the stone Unicorn contemplated the tip of his unique single golden horn, existential questions he hadn’t considered before entered his mind, “Who am I?” And “Where did I come from?”His desire to know was so great that he leaped off his pedestal onto the grass below to find out. “Am I just a mythical creature that no one ever took seriously?” he asked the tip of his horn. “No,no,no,” he heard a coarse, tiny voice answer. With a little jiggle of his head, he turned to see an inches-tall gard...

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Isabella isn't dead yet!

Weekly Contest #315

CW: This piece explores themes of suicide and grief Isabella isn't dead yet!Ed Tasca I don't care if you believe my story. It happened. And I feel it should be shared with everyone. It's the story of the ultimate human discovery. I have breached walls of the living and the dead. And I have answered the mystery of why people who have died momentarily, reached near complete death, found it of infinite rapture, come back to life when they don't want to.Suffering. It was suffering. I didn't know it could cause such pain. It left me in disbelief...

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The Spider Story

The Spider Story - Ed Tasca  Stan and Emily had an unresolved marital secret. Stan hated going to parties thrown by Emily’s friends but never said so, and Emily knew it but pretended not to.   “I’ll give you a quick capsule of what Edgar’s book is all about while we drive. So you know what everybody is talking about at the party,” Emily said as Stan and Emily climbed into their car.   Stan seldom read a novel except when everyone else he knew had read it and his friends talked about it at poker. Stan liked books abo...

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The Spider Story

Weekly Contest #282

The Spider Story - Ed Tasca  Stan and Emily had an unresolved marital secret. Stan hated going to parties thrown by Emily’s friends but never said so, and Emily knew it but pretended not to.   “I’ll give you a quick capsule of what Edgar’s book is all about while we drive. So you know what everybody is talking about at the party,” Emily said as Stan and Emily climbed into their car.   Stan seldom read a novel except when everyone else he knew had read it and his friends talked about it at poker. Stan liked books abo...

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