Alexandria V.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Boon” by Alexandria V.

Sandy Cricket owned the closest market to the house in town. What a name – I know. But she was the epitome of Boon. More salt than pepper strands of hair braided back, and a weathered outline of a heart tattooed along her chest. Sandy always made sure she wore a shirt cut low enough to expose it even though her skin was as tough as leather. Tawny with wrinkles as deep as a crevice. Nonetheless, she still had a bit of sparkle to her. Sandy always wore mascara and enough lipstick to leave residue on the filter of her half-smoked Lucky she left...

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“Oklahoma” by Alexandria V.

Warning: Sex, drugs, language I think he liked to fuck me because I’d fuck back. Because when he’d try to fold me over the dresser or pin me up against the wall, I’d give him everything I got just so I could get mine. I’d clawed his skin to pieces once. But that was nothin’ he didn’t ask for. There was always this built-up angst inside me, but by the time I walked out into the crisp pine air I felt lighter somehow. Like once we were finished, I transferred what I had to him. Rarely, it’d be slow. I ...

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“Sunflower” by Alexandria V.

Submitted to Contest #204

*Trigger Warning: Language, vocal impairment, insinuated violence.* “Now, I know you ain’t tryna steal my truck.”  She was laid over his front seat, her head beneath the dashboard and her shoulders coated in the thick clumps of coffee-bean hair that hung past her waist. The olive skin below her shorts was nearly golden beneath the flickering signs in the night and her hands suddenly stopped moving once she heard his voice.   The strip he was parked on was downtown. Lined with bars as far as a quarter mile down, f...

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Author bio

Before everything I am, I’m a writer. For the underdogs, low ballers, barrel scrapers. For the ones that have lived in the dark and still seek the light. The dreamers, poets, artists, thrill seekers. Late night thinkers, drinkers & hell raisers. Cheers to us.