Alex Lopez

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Carousel” by Alex Lopez

Submitted to Contest #102

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” ― William D. Tammeus She was in the empty lot behind her friend’s house. An open grassy field where the carousel lay thick in thorns and shrubbery. Just sitting on the ground in front of it wondering where all the time had gone. “Lily! Come over to the creek! I set up the bridge with some wood I found in my dad’s shed!” It had been so long ago she had he...

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“West 54th Street” by Alex Lopez

Submitted to Contest #101

There wasn’t much in the air that day besides some cigarette smoke. She was walking along the same sidewalk as she did every single day of her life. Watched as the road workers along West 54th Street paved over the same spot a million different times. Nothing was ever different to her on this sidewalk, yet it was like the world was collapsing in other places she went periodically because she chose not to remember them. One might have thought the world to be static on West 54th Street. The broken theatre, reminiscent of the era of flared pan...

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