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Tim Dudenhoefer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

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Yulin Pours the Tea

Weekly Contest #362

Their motions are careful and deliberate although this is not a formal tea ceremony. I watch quietly and wait for the offered cup. Yulin had previously explained the preference for the pronoun ‘we’, as the plural nonimitative case of the first person, but ‘they’ and ‘their’ are also acceptable. But it remains hard for me to think of Yulin as anything but ‘her.’ To me Yulin appears to be a young girl, what we used to call a Tween, but she is ancient by some standards. She is perhaps a couple hundred years old. Compared to me, however, she is ...

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Burn it Down, Bernadette

Weekly Contest #255

Bernadette was pissed.She grabbed her hair in both hands. Sweeping it back in a fluid motion, she snagged a hair tie off her wrist and bound it out of her way.In quick succession she pulled the hatch shut, adjusted her safety harness, and fired up the Flyer; its twin turbines whined and came to life. As the engines powered up, the craft gently rose a few centimeters off the roof of her complex. Her injuries still ached, but she ignored the pain. She slammed the gear retraction button, stumpy landing gear folded in under the craft. She turned...

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Kokura Luck

Weekly Contest #234

It was 10:28 am local time, Kokura. Grandfather reached up with ancient, gnarled fingers to brush Yukina’s dark hair out of her eyes, saying, “It will be alright, little flower.” He flashed a loving smile and pulled his handkerchief from the breast pocket of his suit coat to wipe her eyes dry. He was crouched, kneeling before her as he offered her the little white square of cloth, “Shall we blow our noses?” Playfully putting the cloth against his own face, he made a great trumpeting noise to get her to giggle as he had done uncountable times...

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Forever Ochre

Shortlisted for Contest #232 ⭐️

To be honest, I feel a little hornswoggled. That’s a great word, isn’t it? Roll it around in your mouth a little bit, “Hornswoggled.” It’s a mouthful and sounds lovely, so impressive and playful. It simply means hoaxed. And if you think about it, the word lives up to itself. It’s a game of a word, sounding cute and fun, that you can use to trick someone into doing things. Pretty sneaky, if you ask me. Anyhow, paint me hornswoggled. I took the job—well, l was talked into taking it—by my very persuasive agent, Stella. “Girl, it will be gre...

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