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Rick Jones

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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Nicole and Christine

Weekly Contest #367

Nicole stood very still in her own kitchen at ten in the morning, with her thumb over the button that called the security company.The woman on the doorbell camera, as shown on Nicole’s phone, was a stranger. Sixty, perhaps, wearing a denim jacket. Sun-worn in the California manner. She stood a full step back from the door, looking around with a nervous air, holding a plastic grocery bag in front of her with both hands.Nicole ran the checklist. Nobody was expected, no packages ordered. In fifteen years of being famous, she'd been found by a m...

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Exit 614

Weekly Contest #345

Kevin had been late getting out of Toronto and the five hour drive home to Ottawa was just half over and yet already felt ten hours long. He’d been selling steels and alloys for eight years, and that felt long, too. Highway 401 through Ontario is boring, a nearly straight shot for eight hundred kilometers from Michigan to Quebec that passes through almost nothing of interest, bypassing every downtown. There aren’t even any mountains. Not that it mattered to Kevin at this point, as it was one in the morning. The client, a blowhard, had in...

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Six Home Runs

Winner of Weekly Contest #340 🏆

VIDEO: Most Valuable S3E7 “Six Home Runs” air: 6 October 2016 dir. Henry Yang CAROLYN GENNARO: Welcome to “Most Valuable” on Showtime, interviewing the athletes at the heart of the greatest moments in sports. This week, we discuss one of the most remarkable performances in Major League Baseball’s long history of postseason heroics; Ryan Mercier’s unprecedented display of power in the 1994 World Series. We’re here in Ryan’s home in Glendale, California. Ryan, thanks so much for having us. (Ryan Mercier nods at the camera and shifts in his ch...

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Baggage

Weekly Contest #315

Nate’s bag didn’t come out. “Son of a bitch.” The other people on his flight were there, taking bags. He checked one going by and it was his flight number. He walked around, looked carefully, even checked the ones that sort of looked like his in case the little souvenir luggage tag he’s gotten from Hawaii had fallen off. It wasn’t there. He was stuck at O’Hare without his suitcase. “Son of a goddamned bitch.” Eight hours’ travel, counting delays, from Seattle. It was late. It was at best an hour’s drive home. Nate trudged up to the luggage s...

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Oliver

Weekly Contest #308

After I woke up and ate some food and drank some water, I walked into the outside today in the hot light where the birds and the mice are because mommy left the outside door open and so I could go there. Sometimes I ask her to go to the outside but she does not let me, and she gives me cookies. I like cookies but I like the birds more and I want to catch them and eat them. First I sat near the door and looked. I could see a lot of grass and other human things far away. Then I jumped up on some furniture that was outside, near the door, and l...

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Class of '26

Weekly Contest #306

Thank you, thank you. Okay. Thank you. Ha ha ha, alright. Thank you. Guys, I’m not the Pope. Thank you. Thank you. My goodness, normally people aren’t that happy to see me walk onstage if I’m not carrying a guitar.Well, who’d have thought I, of all people, would be giving the commencement address at a place like Brown? Or that I’d be given this fancy gown and an honorary doctorate? I’ve no doubt your President, Dr. Holman, approved me as a speaker because I’m famous and not so much for my academic achievements, but, I did do some resear...

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