Aliza Thomas

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“My Corpus Callosum” by Aliza Thomas

Submitted to Contest #46

Dear Cassius L. Carmine,“You spent the greater part of your youth aiming to earn your medical doctorate and to add degree after degree of accomplishments, accolades, and Ph. Ds to your ever-growing resumé. In all honesty, I am a fan, and as many are, I am humbled by your work. When I learned you had published a book, I went to buy it immediately. But I was surprised to find it wasn’t scientific, but a young adult novel. Nonetheless, I bought it under the pretense of my own burning curiosity. It was phenomenal. However, the person who wrote t...

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“Outlasting Autumn” by Aliza Thomas

Submitted to Contest #42

The leaves were already browned when I whispered my goodbyes. A uniform and a small square of paper labeled by the Selective Service and signed in the precious, curling cursive of my lover. I inhaled the strong scent of earth and tobacco in his strong embrace and exhaled to the emptiness of my own arms. Grasping at the air to find that I felt nothing else at all. I closed the brand new, wooden door and drifted towards the window. And as I stood in the midst of my most bitter parting in this world, I could never tell whether the numbness I fe...

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"But he, that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. - Anne Bronte insta | aliza.a.thomas