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Ken Alvarez

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2025

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Adventure in Afghanistan

Weekly Contest #370

Roger is hunkered down under a desert tan tarp with his binoculars trained on a group of buildings carved from the stone of the desert itself. His partner Maria is working on a crossword puzzle, “Hey Roj, I need a five letter word for a snake.”“Johnson has too many letters.”Maria laughs, “That it does, but he’s more of a hemorrhoid than a snake.”“He is a royal pain in my ass, but he can’t do anything to bust us, Colonel Wellerman has our backs. Do you have any letters?”“The third letter is a pee.”“That’s easy, think Randy Orton.”Maria smacks...

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The Invasion

Weekly Contest #369

Julie is enjoying an intimate moment with her wife when the alarm on her phone goes off, when she tries to get up Amelia pulls her back down, “You aren’t clocking out yet lover girl.”Julie turns off the alarm, “Perish the thought mi amor.” and resumes what she’s doing.The DJ stops the music on KKJZ as they are getting in the shower, “We interrupt the music with an emergency news bulletin. Some kind of craft from space have entered the earth’s atmosphere and landed near major cities around the globe. We will have more information as we get it...

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Surf and Turf Poolside

Weekly Contest #362

Sharon wakes Jack by stretching out on the bed and yawning. He looks over at her, “Morning sleepy head.”She smiles at him, “Mornin’ lover boy. Now get out of my way before I piss the bed.”He slides out of bed and gives her a hand up, wincing as his sciatic nerve sends a jolt of pain up his back, “Fuckin’ Chuck!”She gives him a concerned look, “How bad is it?”Washing down three Tylenol with yesterday’s coffee he mumbles, “It’s a lot better, but still hurts.”“Well at least it’s healing, I was worried about you Jacky.”“Thanks Sharon, don’t tell...

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Goodbye Chuck

Weekly Contest #360

WARNING, This story contains drug use and violence. Jack uses the forklift to carry a rolled up cube that had been a ‘69 Camaro into the tear down shop, “Yo Davy, the VIN says it’s a ZL1 COPO 9650 engine, let’s peel it open and see if it’s survived."“Wait, what? An aluminum 427 big block? Hell yeah, and I bet you have ideas for this one don’t you?”Jack grins, “The Z with the pistons hanging out of the block needs a mill, if it’s intact this one will work, on top of that we still have that Tripower intake from that ‘Vette.”Davy grins back, ...

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Goin' Back to Cali

Weekly Contest #352

Jack and Sharon are sitting on an ice chest holding hands, watching their rods and the Pacific, when Sharon’s rod suddenly bends. She leaps to her feet, grabs the rod and pulls back hard, setting the hook. Jack reels his line in to give Sharon room to fight her fish.One of the deckhands, Philippe brings over a fishing belt, buckling her into it. Placing the handle of her rod in the socket, she starts seriously cranking on the reel, while using the rod to try to lever the fish out of the water.The fish is putting up a huge fight. Jack gets a ...

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The Bubblegum Plot

Julie pops a piece of bubblegum in her mouth before she slips through the door leading to the vendor corridor of the mall. At the end of the corridor is the compactor, but her goal is the grate in the floor behind the compactor.Blowing a bubble before she raises the grate, Julie shimmies into the cramped access tunnel. After pushing the grate into place she heads down the tunnel using her small flashlight. She takes the fourth opening to the left, followed by the third one to the right.At the end of the tunnel she climbs the short ladder, pu...

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Chased by the Dead

Weekly Contest #348

CW: violence, drug use Jack wakes up in a cold sweat, alone in an unfamiliar room. Turning on the dim bedside lamp he sits on the edge of the bed remembering the nightmare that he woke from. The cops had him locked in a little room and were grilling him about Chuck, who was standing behind the cops, his flesh stinking and rotting.Chuck’s voice burbled wetly from his mouth, “They have you now Jackass, you are getting the chair, and then you will be mine to torment for ETERNITY!” Several maggots fall from Chuck’s mouth as he speaks. Sitting to...

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End of the Line?

Weekly Contest #346

Jack looked at his motorcycle and sadly shook his head, the local cops all know him and his bike, he needs something more discrete to vanish from the law. With a tear in his eye he sadly runs his hand down the side of his Firebird, yeah it’s fast, so fast, it passes everything but a gas station. The ‘Bird is built to race not for road trips.With an exaggerated sigh he looks at his beater Dodge van with the bed in the back. Because a lot of people have vans his won’t stick out like a sore thumb. Luckily most of his stuff is already in the van...

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A Night in Spokane

Weekly Contest #340

This story contains physical violence, gore, and suicide or self harm Billy Hamilton woke up, remembered where he was, and groaned before crawling out of his cardboard sanctuary. His creator Johnny is getting dressed from the huge pile of filthy clothing on the floor of the equally filthy underground room they share under the old bus station in Spokane Washington.Cursing his pain he takes hold of his cane and painfully gets to his feet. None of the vampire stories he had read, none of the vampire movies he had watched even compared to his ...

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Sonja's Tale

Weekly Contest #299

Hello. I am Sonja, I was an orphan before Father Timothy found me, he thinks I am about twelve years old. We are stuck in the port city of Cawold until his leg heals up. He has been teaching me my letters since we met about a year ago.Before Father Timothy found me I was part of Wulfa’s gang because I am small and can fit into spots where him and his boys can’t fit. Ander did teach me how to open locks, I filched his tools before I left Tamor with Father Timothy, and his crew. Vlad is a magician and can cast all kinds of spells, he don’t lik...

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Morning Ride

When the alarm went off he thought it was going to be just a typical day. It started like a typical day, taking the dogs out and lighting up his morning cigarette. Getting a feel for the weather, deciding if it’s still warm enough to ride, or if he has to take the car, looking to the sky to see if the stars are visible. Checking the weather report to see if it’s going to be a clear or rainy day. Clear skies, lows in the mid 40s, highs in the low 70s, a good day for a motorcycle ride. The only problem with riding to work and back is that you ...

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