Alex Soto

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2023

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“Pergola D'Oro” by Alex Soto

Submitted to Contest #237

Your image in a photograph is how others see you. Your image in a mirror is how you see yourself.I read that somewhere. I struggle to grasp its meaning, but I know it sounds nice. Poetic, even. Like there’s truth in it; but what that truth is trying to convey, I’m not sure. Yet. The way I appear in this bathroom mirror is the best I’ll ever look. The ambient light overhead casts shadows in the exact places I want them to: my neck, my cheek bones, beneath my pecs. I roll up the lavender sleeves of my Calvin Klein dress shirt and run...

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“A Veil of Amethyst ” by Alex Soto

Submitted to Contest #217

Dalton had a lifelong fascination with the varying uses of fire. It could bestow warmth and life, or its light could shine the way through certain darkness; but the smoldering embers before Dalton told a different story: one of an end. The putrid, steaky odor fumigating Dalton’s sinuses was one that could only be created through the scorching of the human body. Dalton gave an involuntary snarl at its stench. This was the second victim discovered this year. Only two months had passed since they lost Bremmer. Clivedale dismounted...

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