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Rowan Breeden

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2023

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The Last Cup

(I am honestly not sure if this does contain mature content or not, but I figured it’s better to be safe than sorry. This short story is centered around someone grappling with losing their mother and childhood home, reflecting on the realistic and complicated relationship between mother/child and dealing with grief. A reference to the Devil is used as a personification of grief, which highlights the narrators complicated relationship with loss.) I am steeped in thought.Slumped over on the kitchen counter, my fingers drumming the marble in a ...

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Hector

Submitted to Contest #194

Consider an ordinary home, in an ordinary town, occupied by an ordinary man. Consider a tidy, well-kept living space. All necessary items put away in their respective places, and all surfaces dusted, sanitized, and gleaming. A truly picture-perfect home, purposefully reflective of a picture-perfect lifestyle. This is the home of a man named Hector. Hector, as long as he could remember, had always been an organized person. His childhood bedroom had always been neat as a pin, his mother never once having to request that his toys...

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