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Michael Huff

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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A New Appetite

Submitted to Contest #333

“You look like hell!” Clara glared at me like it was my fault. “Go home.”“I’ve got to finish the MacGregor file or Rigel will have my hide.” My voice barely audible. If I looked like hell, I thought, then I looked exactly the way I felt, but these files weren’t going to finish themselves.“Go home. I’ll get Sean to do it. He’s got nothing better to do, I’m sure. You’ll be no good to MacGregor or anyone else, if you croak on us. Besides, none of us want to get whatever it is you’ve got,” and she pulled the cowl neck of her sweater over her mou...

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Portaterra: Coming Home for the First Time

Submitted to Contest #332

Dryfus stared through the portal he’d just opened, his heart seized by a sudden rush of fear. He could see a barren, rocky landscape backed by a stormy sky — nothing to hang his hopes on. This was not one of those commercial gateways kept open for long stretches as tourists and travelers stepped between worlds. This was an emergency portal. It had the capacity for only a small group for a very short time. They had been distributed to the cadets by groups, a failsafe should everything go wrong. And everything that could go wrong, had gone wro...

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