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Q.L. Vincent

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023

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Apologies, from Gary

Submitted to Contest #301

Greetings, Friend, this is Gary!I'll tell you, it has been quite the day! I'm sure you're wondering where I am, and to that end, I kindly ask that you read on so that you might have a more sympathetic understanding of my situation and judge my tardiness with such things in mind.I woke up this morning, as most of us aspiring entrepreneurs do, at 3:52 A.M. This gave me the perfect amount of time for my usual morning routine; shaving, face-peeling, tooth-brushing, thirteen minutes in the sensory deprivation tank, reading two chapters of Battlef...

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Loser's Swing

Submitted to Contest #246

How many of you had an imaginary friend?I was a latchkey kid growing up. My father served in the army overseas, and my mother took up a job at home to further support us. My mother didn't return until a couple of hours after school let out, so I'd be alone for a good while. I was an only child and had trouble making friends, so this compounded my loneliness.There was a playground about two blocks from my house that I'd frequent after coming home from school. I could get there faster by cutting through a small (but thick) forest clearing behi...

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Raymond Dutch's Guide to being a Homebody

Submitted to Contest #221

(TW; Mental deterioration, implied violence and self-mutilation.) [A call was placed on the morning of March 7th, 2008, to the LAPD regarding a foul odor emanating from the residence of one Raymond Dutch. The Dutch residence had a call placed on it before for a noise complaint, but otherwise no other legal issues of note. Upon interviewing the neighbors, the police were told that Raymond Dutch had become reclusive and paranoid following a robbery at his home while he was away on a business trip. They had filed multiple complaints with the ...

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An Ant at the End of the Universe

Submitted to Contest #189

The universe was ending.In truth, that phrasing may be a bit over dramatic– it wasn’t so much coming to an end in an explosive, bombastic fashion (though the supernova from the few stars left certainly made for a beautiful light show), as it was with a slow, sputtering gasp.More aptly, it was dying.In a fruitless pursuit to reverse the inevitable heat death of the universe, or really just anything in such a hopeless situation, a lone arthropod had fashioned a humble little spacecraft. Out of scraps of metal and splintered wood it was crafted...

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