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WALTER PETERSON

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2025

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Driving Lessons

Submitted to Contest #315

DRIVING LESSON Well, Abers Run starts way down by the bottoms, comes up past our house and its still dirt then turns to gravel and you hear the stones bouncing off the undercarriage of our truck. Then it turns onto the grade crossing, and there I am, stalled on the slope beside the railroad tracks afraid the a coal train might just be coming from the mines. I say, Grandaddy, what should I do? He just stares out the window calm as anything and tells me, You the last one that touched the wheel, Sweet Pea. So I put the clutch in, turn the...

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Fiction Writers' conferences: Night School

Submitted to Contest #304

WC: 1,314 Fiction Writers’ Conferences: Night School Well, welcome to the first writers’ conference of the semester, Mr. er Impalovich. Sir, that’s Impa LOW vich. Quite an unusual name for around here. Yes, Professor Redd. Accent on the penultimate syllable. The “low’ means illegitimate, like, say, oh apostrophe in Irish. Just call me Eric. Sounds East European. Yes, Professor Eric. Romanian to be exact, and I go way back. No, it’s just Eric. We can dispense with titles here, Mr. ImpaLOWvich. My theory is when you sit around the w...

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