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Tim Grimo

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

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Camille the Caterpillar or Not a Children's story

Submitted to Contest #41

Somewhere in the undergrowth, a fleshy knot stirred in its shell. At one end, a black, featureless mask encased a trap-jaw.Tentatively, as if waking from a slumber it didn’t remember falling into, the knot unwound itself to face the gelatinous wall of its womb. A pair of minuscule mandibles began chewing through the membrane: my first meal, and the beginning of its sentient life. For the sake of anthropomorphism, she was known as Camille, because it had a nice ring to it, Camille the Caterpillar. As she finished the last bit of she...

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Earth's Worth

Submitted to Contest #39

‘That’s about far enough,’ he thinks to himself. He strains forward and punches the manual engine shutoff. The low rumble of several hundred gallons of fuel igniting instantaneously to maintain literally gravity-defying propulsion subsides and dies.  In the deafening silence that immediately follows, Jasper’s buttocks ease out of the sunken cushions. The contrast is startling; a few minutes ago, his body was submitted to the sensation of weighing three times its usual weight. By some small miracle our protagonist stayed conscious a...

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