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Norman Singer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2024

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ABSURDITY AIN'T STRONG ENOUGH

Submitted to Contest #336

ABSURDITY AIN’T STRONG ENOUGHMy dear readers. If we were to look up the word ABSURDITY in the dictionary we see it defined as “The act of being ABSURD”. Big deal. That doesn’t tell us much so we proceed to the next step and look up the word ABSURD. Ah ha now we’re getting somewhere. There it is in plain English, “The quality of being ridiculous or unreasonable". This definition is o.k for lightweight beginners needing to express some picky level of frustration but it is not suitable from my perspective to properly convey` the essence of the ...

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The Lost Ball

Submitted to Contest #332

THE LOST BALL This is a story about a golf ball , plain and simple a golf ball, and it has nothing to do with me. It has to do with a next door neighbour of mine in suburban Toronto, a sweetheart of a man by the name of Harry Feldman, a retired high school English teacher and probably the most passionate and knowledgeable lover of Shakespeare on the planet.. He could come up with a related quote from any one of the Bard’s plays at the drop of a hat any time the opportunity arose in a conversation and paraphrase it to fit the subject. Then he...

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Not One Of Us

Submitted to Contest #326

October 2, 2025 NOT ONE OF USWell now here’s the set up. I am a newcomer, a stranger in this small Israeli town and it’s Erev Yom Kippur. For those of you Goyem (non Jews) that are in the dark as to what that means, it is literally the evening that starts the holiest of holy days in the Jewish calendar, “The Day Of Atonement”. For the following 24 hours Jews, throughout the world— that is most of them anyway, and I’m talking about both religious and secular players —participate in some way s...

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once in a lifetime might be enough

Once in a lifetime might be enough How to best describe the character and attributes of one Joshua Francis — Josh, as he is called by all those who know him, is the hero of this story.Well let me give it a try.First:He is the only child of the late Jefferson Francis, a wealthy Wall Street player who was widowed when Josh was just 3 years old, leaving Josh with no perceptible memory of his mother. The elder Mr. Francis died 7 years ago willing to his son, his only heir, his entire estate a stock portfolio valued at twenty million dollars, mor...

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