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Taz Dunstan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2024

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A Midnight Insomniacs "Dream" - Smoke and Caffeine

Submitted to Contest #257

"Oh to sleep." - by the light of the moon... Alas the Midsummer moon has come and gone many, many moons ago and now... now the sky it wretched. A deep, deep darkness has consumed the night...so unnerving, one dare not close their eyes for fear of never opening them again. "Oh to dream." - the thought, so rebellious, one gasps in surprise at the mischief of even imagining such luxury. "No, there is no dreaming." That ship sunk long, long ago- besieged by pirates, with pens in pin striped pants, destroying the sails they swung from with fire ...

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The Torture Chamber Champion

In the modern day “Hunger Games” where all forms of torture are “legalised” by without notice court orders- you have to fight.This is the reality. Everything you ever believed (or were told to believe) about justice- is a joke. This can be a destabilising realisation, like being told "Santa doesn’t exist"- but after the shock, disbelief and grief that follows… a lot of things make a lot more sense.The Courts job is not to be just- it is merely “the performance” of the act to be “seen” to be upholding the law. When, in fact, Judges frequently...

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