Bruce Douglas Reeves's Writings
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Short Story
Oct.07.2012
Danse Macabre online magazine
Bruce Douglas Reeves NICE PEOPLE
Glancing between the tropical fish-patterned plastic curtains down to the hibiscus-hedged yard behind Mrs. Noborikawa’s rooming house, Will saw the lanky blonde again. She was kneeling in a one-piece black swimsuit amid earthen pots and miniature mountains of dirt. The zinc oxide whitening her nose suggested the face of a...
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Short Story
Aug.27.2012
Wild Violet Online Literary Magazine
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The antique brass pen holder winked under the cone of lamplight among the ungraded homework papers, pulling Constance's gaze to the leafy designs etched onto its phallic shaft. Almost reluctantly, she let her fingertip push up the scallop-shaped cap, then peered into the empty...
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Short Story
Jun.21.2012
Blue Lake Review
Ulysses in Old Cairo Bruce Douglas Reeves _ They missed the massacre at the Valley of the Queens by a single day. Blood flowed under that flawless sky, but not theirs. Twenty-four hours earlier they'd walked among the scarred...
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Short Story
Jun.10.2012
The Drill Press: Big Stupid Review
Corporate StrategiesBy Bruce Douglas ReevesA Subversive Story
1. The Meeting
He didn’t intend to go to the meeting. Those monthly sessions were all alike: too many overpriced drinks while people bitched about either the jobs they had or the jobs they wanted, then watery filet of sole and a speaker proclaiming yet again that PR Professionals must work with...
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Short Story
Jun.10.2012
Clapboard House magazine
The Social Contract by BRUCE DOUGLAS REEVES
They get at us through our kids. As if we don’t suffer enough already, surviving in this terrible, violent world, they go after our children, too.
Beth wasn’t entirely sure, although she thought about this almost constantly, who they were, but they were out there and her daughter was vulnerable and had suffered. And...
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How much time do we want to spend with a young, beautiful, talented, self-sufficient, self-confident woman who dictates terms for life herself and to hell with everyone else? Turns out we want to spent a lot of time with her. By the end, one cannot help but to have fallen in love with her...and to feel how deeply she feels her need to give herself and her talent in an attempt to make a better world.
-- Clay Reynolds, series judge on my prize-winning novella DELPHINE, Texas Review Press, November 2012”
—Clay Reynolds' announcement of the prize and his quote for the book blurb
About Bruce
My novella DELPHINE won the Clay Reynolds Novella Competition and was published as a book by Texas Review Press; I've also published three novels: THE NIGHT ACTION (NAL hardback, Signet paper; Great Britain: Andre Deutsch hardback, Mayflower Books paper;...
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Bruce’s Favorite Books
Seven almost perfect novels: THE GREAT GATSBY, LOLITA, THE END OF THE AFFAIR, THE WARS OF LOVE, THE GRASS IS SINGING, LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS, THE GOOD SOLDIER....
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