Alexandra Rodriguez

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2022

Stories (4)

4 Stories

164 karma pts

?

“Bloodlust” by Alexandra Rodriguez

I was going to kill a man tonight.  That’s why I went to the party. It was an extravagant, black-tie affair thrown on a warm late summer evening at the end of July. Hosted by none other than Walter Adler, the richest man in town. Midnight was approaching, and with it, my deadline. I dressed the part, wearing a maroon dress with a corset torso and a slit up the thigh. My makeup was reminiscent of the famou...

9 comments 9
Read story

“I'll Be Your Juliet” by Alexandra Rodriguez

(FYI: This is a prologue to “Not Some Juliet” available to read on my profile! :) Both are standalone as well.)The Olveras and the Bentlys hate each other. That’s just a fact. It has always been that way and it will always be that way.The day I met Ben Bently that all changed.My name is Julia Olvera, if you didn’t already know. This is a story, my story, the story of how the 99 Years feud in Amerigo ended.It all began on a warm fall afternoon. I was w...

8 comments 8
Read story

“Say Goodbye at Sunrise” by Alexandra Rodriguez

I have never seen the sun. When I say that, I mean it literally. Not as some dramatic statement about how depressed I am or a metaphor for how I’ve never had a good day in my life. I mean I have literally never seen the sun. You’d think it’s a miserable existence. Never feeling the warmth of a warm summer's day, never laying down on a beach to get gorgeously tan, never being blinded by pur...

16 comments 16
Read story

“Not Some Juliet” by Alexandra Rodriguez

[Warning, contains mention of death of a loved one.]I stood staring at the sea foam green doors. The sea of students maneuvered around me like the flow of a river breaks to a jagged rock in its current. There is no way I can do this.I took a deep breath, C'mon, I thought, You have to do it. For him. He would have wanted you to carry on.Yet as I willed my feet to move, I remained stuck in place. It was here, I remembered, that we had hung out for the first time. We wou...

25 comments 25
Read story

Author bio

Alexandra Rodriguez has not written a bio yet!