Menu

More apps built by Reedsy

reedsymarketplace

Assemble a team of professionals

reedsystudio

The writing app for authors

reedsylearning

Writing courses, events and memberships

reedsydiscovery

Get your book reviewed

reedsyprompts

Weekly writing prompts and contests

Menu

Prompts

Contests

Stories

Blog

HH The Author

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

Stories (2)

Comments

Library

1 Followers

3 Following

2 Stories

33 karma pts

?

Midsummer (4th of July, Really) Night’s Dream (or A Psychedelic’s Fault)

Submitted to Contest #257

Someone was not straight with me on Tuesday. Or Wednesday. And now it was Thursday, early in the morning, and I couldn’t join the festivities unless I went shopping on this holiday I hadn’t planned on.So, I went shopping for three with two: Eldest and Youngest. As they were blithely doing their do, independently, I was in angst about what to do at checkout. When I arrived there, I decided I would be 100. So, I rang up, erected, and told the guy, ‘No bag.’Registers stopped talking, people stopped pressing flesh to muted machines, and all came...

6 likes

A Serious Business

Submitted to Contest #256

NOTE: Physical violence, gore, abuse, and fictitious representations of religious and national figures. Seriously? He can’t be serious. ‘D! You can’t be serious right now.’ But of course the earnest chap was never not serious. At least in mixed company. On both counts. This, his clearly sober stationing of horse and—oh—I…can’t look. The other guy’s readying. He’s quite nearly there, my guy, that is. This, yes, he’s continuing, no matter how massively he might alter the whole of history, let alone the sacred cannons of—dunno—nations, ...

6 likes