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Alexis Araneta

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2023

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The Taskmasters' New Year's Treat

1 January 2017Okay, so after five years of setting New Year's resolutions, blazing through them for two months, and then completely forgetting about it in March, I want to try something different. A game ? THE game ? The one I watch without fail on Thursdays on telly ?Welcome to Taskmaster: Sam's New Year Treat!Here goes nothing.Using an unusual line that could have been from Taskmaster, finally introduce yourself to Marina Scott from Marketing. Come on now, Sam. You've been stealing glances at that brunette with the fox-like face and the sp...

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Interior Design

Things to Take With You in Your New Townhouse:1.      500-Title Book Collection (Collection Started: 1993) – Place on the shelves --- painted lavender, of course --- all over the house. No need to differentiate between Graeme’s titles and yours. After all, when you told him all those years ago you wanted to live in a library, his quick response was “Can it be OUR library?”Copies of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, Muriel Barbery’s “The Elegance of a Hedgehog”, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry...

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The Elopement Proposition

Hi, everyone ! Well, this is the first short story I've written in years, so I may be a little rusty. Basically, I'll be using Reedsy to get back into writing again. Either way, I hope you like it.**“Just how do I do this?” Alice asks herself as she looks out the window of a London cab.The gently falling snow is covering everything in a light, pristine white powder, as if stardust descended upon Brixton Hill. Normally, Alice would have watched every single snowflake fall as a smile of wonder crept across her face. After all, back in Luiseith...

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