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Edward Regory

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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Struggles in the Shadows: Life in the Ghetto

Submitted to Contest #285

I remember when I heard the horrifying scream as I groggily awakened. I didn’t know what was happening and was terrified to discover what these screams were. Maybe it was a dream, I thought, glancing over to my twin brother, Joey, who was still sleeping. I froze as the blanket covered my frightened body. The hesitation I felt about climbing from my mattress, however, would soon diminish as I gradually slipped off the edge of the bed. I made my way toward the bedroom doorknob. As I inched closer, the screams reverberated off the apartment wal...

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Words Cut More than Actions

Submitted to Contest #284

It was a chilly September day, and my hands felt numb as if frostbite had set in from the icy mist of water spraying back after a long day of pressure washing. I had backed up my two-ton truck onto the driveway and needed a moment--wiping granules of embedded dirt from my eyes and hair. I felt beaten by yet another day of swinging side-to-side and the jerking motion of a pressure washing wand over a two-story home and twenty-one hundred square feet of moss-covered pavement. The pinch in my mid-back and burn in my knees was proof that at my a...

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