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Robert Mackey

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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Rats

Submitted to Contest #41

“Jenny! Jenny!” Jenny rolled her eight-hundred-pound body into her father’s in-home laboratory in her custom scooter. “Yes Papa?” “I got it! It works!” “Really?” “Yup. I’ve been force-feeding this rat for a month. It could barely walk. After just three days on the treatment it has lost a whole pound while I’ve kept its diet constant.” “It’s only a pound Papa.” “A pound is twenty-five percent less than what he weighed three days ago.” “Wow. That’s great!” “Are you ready to give it a try?” “Oh, yes. Please.” Papa handed Jenny a beaker with hal...

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The Game Bridge (An article from the Addy Times, Herald, Daily Bugle, Press and Examiner)

Submitted to Contest #37

Yesterday the grapevine was in full bloom. Report after report made it from one idiot to the next and finally to me. It seems the town’s meth dealer and self-appointed mayor, Shandra Donothing, has initiated one of her withdrawal-induced projects in the microlopolis of Addy, Wa. Now, one has to be careful not to take news leads too seriously when they come from the drug, and booze addled lips of Addyites. But when all ten of my trusted informants report some strange going’s on, that means a good fifty people, which is the entire town’s popul...

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