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Patient Grasshopper

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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The Rain world

Patient Grasshopper

It was a dark and stormy night.  Randy Smith was driving home after working late.  In many ways it was a rainy night like any other in small town America. The visibility was low due to the deluge.  Lightning crashes across the sky, lighting up the clouds and illuminating the road as bright as if it were day. They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but Randy was certain he had seen several bolts in the exact same place in the distance. It was raining so hard now he could barely see 20 feet in front of the car, so...

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The body switch experiment

Patient Grasshopper

Submitted to Contest #105

--John's point of view--It all started one day we were in science class. The teacher had a new experiment he had been wanting to try out but wouldn’t say what it was. Mr. B. was a short balding man with curly black hair. One day he came to class acting differently than he normally did, as if his personality had completely changed. Eventually he finally said “You may have noticed I don’t seem like myself toady, that is because I am not. I am not Mr. B., I am in fact his wife Mary.” He waited a minute for all the laugh...

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The New Job

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Submitted to Contest #105

I woke up early that Monday morning feeling great. I had had a great night’s sleep, better than usual. This was going to be a great day. This was the day I would get the big promotion at work. “Michael Miller, assistant executive vice President”. That had a nice ring to it. Ever since starting work for Rubenstein Corporation three years ago, it was the job I had wanted. Now I was all but guaranteed it, all that was left was the formality of the promotion. I got dressed in my most formal business suit. Catching a glim...

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