Ajay Sabs

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2024

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Caramelized Onions” by Ajay Sabs

Submitted to Contest #270

You’re laying on the couch, the TV is on but you’re not really watching anything, and you’re feeling blah. Maybe it’s that summer has come to an end. You’re in the interstitial period that immediately precedes the season that elevates hypothermia and credit card debt to holiday status. Fall has begun, the house feels empty. Leaves have fallen, rain has fallen, and is still falling, and a slurry of leaf paste has formed on the ground outside. You’re stuck inside. You’re tired. The listlessness feels like a yoke tied to your neck, pulling you ...

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“The Interior Life of Ruck” by Ajay Sabs

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #243

I backpack. Named Ruck. Store person put me on shelf. She say I “handsum”. I not know what it mean, but she make happy face when she say, so must be nice thing. Nothing to do while I sit here but lots to look at. After I see sun come up from outside window two times, I feel little bored. I feel little empty, like I hungry. But I not wait long. Young man come, he look at me. He lift me from shelf, take me to store lady, who ask him if he want me “in a bag”, which make them both laugh. We go outside, he sling me on back. What a feeling! ...

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Author bio

A lifelong lover of warm, diffused lighting. I build apps for writing and creativity, while writing as much and as often as I can. Website: ajaysabs.com

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #243

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