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Israel Guptill

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2025

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I&N part 1

Nolan: I honestly don’t remember how I met Izzy, maybe it was by chance. Maybe she stopped by the basket ball court and struck up a conversation, or maybe we met in class and bonded over some long forgotten item. Maybe my friends gave me her number or maybe I gave her mine. But it doesn’t really matter how we met and how our friend ship started it only matters on how it ended.It was winter, a cold December day that didn’t feel like Christmas but like some far off land of bon fire smoke and snow. “Hurry up!” She shouted her voice echoed in ...

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What does it feel like?

TW: self harm, suicide and mental health“Okay, yes. If you need any other help just call.” I say and hangup. A forty year old man. Who knew someone so depressed could last that long. I know I couldn’t last as long as forty.I sit at my desk and wait. Wait for what? I couldn’t tell you. Wait for the world to end, or my life to end. Whichever one comes first. I don’t know which one I wish to come first. The sense of doom fills the office, which doesn’t seem out of place sense I am working at a crisis center. But it feels stifling today, choking...

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The World is Quite Here

[This story contains gore, mental health and physical violence]The Mouse - Lucy Mouse that is- Case has always been close to my heart, always held a secret shelf up in my mind for me to pull down on rainy days and evaluate. So when the opportunity to meet Lucy’s killer first hand an interview him I jumped at the chance and flew to Kentucky where he was being kept in a mental institution .So now here I am sitting in front of a murder in my striped pantsuit while a normal looking man sat in front me waiting me be interviewed. I asked Gabe for ...

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