Abdii Beyene

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

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“Something Stable: Something Gone ” by Abdii Beyene

Submitted to Contest #78

After a decade with someone, I am told that people settle down a bit and become more predictable. They become solid in the things they like and dislike. Ideally they leave themselves room for growth, but they should, SHOULD, be solid. I suppose that was true for me; I got slower, less active, and more introverted. My games and my three monitors, and four cats, and six friends, and one partner--all uncomplicated. My job paid well, because cyberfluency is the currency of the now, DOW, and stock market. Battle-stations with multiple monitors ...

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“Chaka or Forest: Boudah or witch” by Abdii Beyene

Submitted to Contest #43

The witch-woman came to my wedding, without invitation, and refused to give my new wife the goat milk which would have blessed us with children . “She has the black soil,” she said “She’ll sprout”.WIth those words she left to get drunk in the mead house, not the cleaner one by the center of town but the further one by the second road, and took a plate full of food from the wedding, bundled in cloth and just... left. In the noise that followed, my second-mother (my wifes mother) accused my wife of getting herself pregnant and that’s why the w...

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