Amanda Vivilacqua

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2023

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“Collision” by Amanda Vivilacqua

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #210

Dysus drove west, obeying the speed limit, and he trembled as he tried to light his seventh cigarette of the morning. His lips tingled around the filter. He smelled his own stale breath, captured in the palm he cupped around the lighter’s weak flame. He swallowed against the sticky thudding of the pulse that beat too high in his throat. The cigarette caught the flame and smoldered. Dysus cracked his window, and the smoke that drifted up to burn his eyes was sucked away into the cold morning. He coasted under yet another green light. He’d enc...

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combating existential dread by writing speculative fiction

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #210
Collision – read story