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Nicola Chapman

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2023

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Bad Apples

The first thing that struck me about the woman at the door was that she seemed a bit vacant. She had opened the door and greeted me politely enough, yet she never quite focused on my eyes when she looked at me. There was a smell of cabbage soup and (was it?) fresh bread that wafted out of the door as it opened that made my mouth water briefly, but it was gone when she invited me in after my opening pitch, so I chalked it up to skipping lunch and thought no more about it. We sat in her living room on stiff, formal sofas. Outside, the fall wi...

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Port Authority

Weekly Contest #226

(This story contains themes of violence and sexual content, although all couched within terms of consent). Mediator 755230, tall and bulky, walked slowly down the boardwalk, scanning the heaving crowd for any signs of undue stress. Its cameras panned around, coordinating with the drone cameras positioned above it and its network partners, all patrolling a stretch of beachfront that used to be called Venice. Complex algorithms gathered all the video, audio, infra-red, and electronic data, weaving it all together and laying it out for the net...

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