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Matt Foreman

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2026

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When Maxine Feels Sad

Weekly Contest #378

This might have been the weirdest job of Jim’s career. After nineteen years as a surveillance investigator, there weren’t many surprises. Meet the client…talk about the particulars…set up the cameras and necessary technology…watch everything for a while…report his findings. It was tedious work. Good paychecks, but dull as tears. This one, though. This one was a humdinger, especially since he’d done something illegal. The assignment was to watch the Garvey house, the site of the most notorious triple homicide in Whitman County history. Hell, ...

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Father Kerry's Pistol

“The Lord could never forgive my sins, Father. Not after what I’ve done.” Blake was slumped over on the stool in the confessional booth. He’d never visited a church to seek atonement during a voyage before. Like all other sailors, he always went to a tavern for whiskey and whores when his ship came to port. Coming home when the voyage was finished…that was the time for confession. The things he did while he was at sea always demanded penance. But this time, he couldn’t wait. The guilt he felt for his crimes on this voyage was unbearable. S...

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Jenny's Healing Box

Three hours ago, Jenny had so many things on her mind. Freshman year of college was ending, and she crushed it. A 4.0 GPA was no joke, especially in mechanical engineering. It was bad enough being the only girl in most of her classes with a bunch of incels. They all hated her because she was smarter than them, and she was hot. Her very existence pissed them off good and proper. People had been telling her how tough it was going to be since she was a junior in high school. And they weren’t kidding. It was brutal, but she knocked it out of th...

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Howard

Weekly Contest #375

HOWARD By Matt Foreman Howard really didn’t want to go up there and ring the doorbell. He was sitting in his old Buick Electra in front of his ex-wife’s house, where she lived with her new husband (who was a complete idiot) and Howard’s 15-year-old son, Josh. He was only allowed to see Josh on the weekends, according to the judge’s screwjob decision when he and Maddy got divorced three years ago. This particular weekend was special, because he was taking Josh to the batting cages and then dinner at a steakhouse they both liked. Whenever h...

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