Aleena -

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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“Un-Calculated Risk ” by Aleena -

Submitted to Contest #51

“Are you okay to present next?” She asks. I suddenly become aware of the eyes on me. This is how I’ve best understood the cumulative effect of things. One person glancing my way is no problem. Two, and I start to feel a little uneasy. Fourteen makes it hard to breathe. I nod, swiftly moving my head up and down in that vertical motion I’ve grown all too familiar with. That’s the first thing they see, it distracts them from my eyes, which tend to always scream no. I often think how different things would be if my eyes had a body of their own...

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“Home Is Where I Mattered” by Aleena -

Submitted to Contest #39

I think we got time wrong.I think we got time wrong because in that moment I stood still yet felt the entirety of my existence, pour in and out of me, in and out. I think we got time wrong because this doesn’t seem to pass and because everything that supposedly did pass is back as I hold, rather cling, on to it.I know we’re moving in space but I can really feel the space moving in me. My mind is beginning to spiral and it feels as if I’m no longer here. They said it would feel amazing, they said it would be exhilarating and that my problems ...

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