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Robert Reischl

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

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I wasn't supposed to talk about it

Weekly Contest #363

I wasn't supposed to talk about it. They didn't want me to talk about it! I wasn't supposed to talk about when he burst into my employee dorm room WITH A KNIFE! I also wasn't supposed to talk about it when some members of SWAT, who were in body armor, told us we had to leave the building--IMMEDIATELY--because of a quote: Crisis situation!And then they stormed the building because there was an eleven-year-old girl, from Phoenix, who had been kidnapped in Phoenix and brought up to Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona.I wasn't suppose...

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Spooky Wild-Eyed Land

Weekly Contest #361

In that HOT, HOT ruthlessly hot land along the Rio Grande where everything wants to kill you TRUST ME! I told her loved her spooky wild-eyed along the Rio Grande where everything wants you DEAD!In that loveless land along the Rio Grande where poisonous assassins slither and lay in-wait, then SURPRISE! It's too late along the US/Mexico border where the thorny ocotillo and the pricky cactus exist to make one bleed, and Sun goes down like a closing eye that doesn't want to look anymore because it is too scary.In a summer of desperation when a s...

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Don't Come!

Weekly Contest #227

"DON'T COME! Because it's too dangerous" she said at Christmas, but it was Christmas, and everyone goes home at Christmas, he told himself. It's a tradition. "No, DON'T COME! It's dangerous!" his mother stressed it, AGAIN, when it's a tradition and everyone goes home at Christmas. Now in the cavernous halls of the college dormitory, which like an abandoned building that's desolate and devoid like everyone has fled, and the sound of his footfalls resonated down the lonely and echoing emptiness. When a door closes behind the last one, and they...

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Man Enough!

The sound of arguing, drunken arguing upstairs and someone was insulting someone else about being MAN ENOUGH! Then right after that an undefined threat and they were going to... but it was undefined. Without seeing it, I just knew. I didn't have to see it, I just knew it. The Spice Channel was on and a hot-looking woman, or women, were smearing chocolate on a lover, or lovers, and deliciously licking it off. I didn't have to see it to know it. Wondering if 911 had been called, AGAIN, by an alarmed neighbor, while the Spice Channel was defini...

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