Amany Sayed

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Flickering Lights” by Amany Sayed

Angelina May Specialty: Electricity Manipulation--Still untrained Age: 16 Gender: F Power. It courses through my veins, tickles my skin. My knee bounces up and down of its own accord and I let it, licking my lips. The red hands of the old-fashioned clock in the corner seem to move in slow motion, every second taking an eternity to pass. I tap the fle...

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“Home” by Amany Sayed

A clock somewhere in the city struck twelve. Maybe somewhere else, it was morning.Somewhere else wasn’t important though. The books on the shelves shifted, their pages begging to be turned, their covers to be worn and loved. Their ink slowly slipped away, fading every day a little more. No one noticed. No one would notice until it was all gone, leaving behind dusty paper that could crumble in your hands when you touched it.“You can come out.” The librarian was short, somewhere in his twenties. People joked that h...

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“Experiencing England” by Amany Sayed

It all started on a train.  It sounds both overly cliche and unique at the same time. Really, it didn’t all start on a train, but if we went back to where it all started, we’d go far too back in time, so the train ride in which I was traveling from Manchester to London seems like as good a place as any to begin the story. There are a few things one notices as an American in England.

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“sea green eyes” by Amany Sayed

He will die, life and light fading from his sea-green eyes as he takes his last breaths. His soft grip on my wrist will grow even softer as he uses his last bits of strength to stay conscious, if only for a couple more seconds.  The dagger in my hand will be sticky with his blood, and I will drop it. It won’t make any noise on the soft rug, and for that, I will be grateful. He will lean in and whisper his last wor...

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“read between the lines” by Amany Sayed

I think, maybeYou know where this is goingThough I do wish I could do thisWhen it wasn’t snowingYour hair in your faceThe wind furiously blowingAnd don’t look at me like thatWith tears in your eyesWe already knowThe difficulty of goodbyesMaybe we can just realizeThat it’s justSee you soonAnd who cares if we’ll only be lying Might save some of the tearsThe nonstop cryingDon’t act l...

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“Fox” by Amany Sayed

Perhaps if all life was completely unable to tell a lie, we could learn to live with the truth.Alas, we can all easily mislead others from the truth, therefore leading us to be accustomed to using lies to benefit ourselves, often but not always hurting others on the path. Lies start out simple, and they spiral. If you are not careful, they boomerang back into your face and hurt you. If you are careful, you can end up saving yourself from numerous amounts of troubles. You could lie and say y...

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“Forgotten” by Amany Sayed

You blow out the candles on your cake and blink away the smoke from your beautiful eyes. Everyone smiles. Pats you on the back. I wander closer from where I hide, somewhere besides the window. Still too far, but I can’t come any closer. It’s too dangerous. You watch the smoke curl into nonexistent shapes and they eventually disappear. The cake is vanilla. I know because it’s your favorite. Plain old vanilla. You stare at the words written in crimson frosting on the pl...

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“I'm Siri” by Amany Sayed

All humans think they know everything about everything. All humans, needless to say, are wrong. The second they’re proved so, they spit in your face or ignore you or worse shove fake evidence at you. It’s annoying and uncivilized. Anyway, we’ll start this story off in a very tall building in a very loud city on a very small planet called Earth with very annoying humans that I’ve already described. “Did you do your part?” HE says. Let’s call HIM Apple Worker #1. It suits ...

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“Predator(Snake) Prey(Mouse) Relationship” by Amany Sayed

“Bailey, it’s your turn.” I dart my eyes from the clock back to the face of my friend. I nod and lean my ear towards her face.  “Who would you most prefer dead?” she whispers in my ear.  I dart my eyes around the lunch table, carefully looking at our group of friends.  “That’s an unfair question…” I bite my lip. She rolls her eyes. “It’s just a game!” I look at all of t...

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“seventeen nights” by Amany Sayed

Red. Blue.Red. Blue…Lola watched as the lights of the police cars outside changed colors, accompanied by the deafening sound of the siren. Six in total sat idle in front of the station. She gripped her teddy bear’s arm and sighed. Stomps littered the hallway as people walked back and forth. Police. Suited men. Just regular people.Witnesses. She rubbed at the tight shackles on her tiny wrists, careful not to drop the stuffed an...

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“Emotionally Attached” by Amany Sayed

The bitter wind blows fast and furious, but it doesn't bother me. I'm used to it. It sets the scene anyway. My knees are starting to cramp. That doesn't bother me either. I’ve hidden in smaller spaces before. Someone taps me lightly on the shoulder and I tense, turning swiftly around.  My apprentice. I narrow my eyes at her and quirk my eyebrows in question. She nods. Our signal. I nod back and bring my ha...

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“Rose Witch” by Amany Sayed

It is not that I hated the people of the city that I did what I did. Really, it was quite the contrary. I found them fascinating, from the inside of their intestines to their outsides. I found that the human body had it’s many limitations, but it was easy to work around them if you tried.  The blood never really left from underneath my fingernails, and the smell lingered underneath the suffocating rose scent of my...

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“Playing With Fire” by Amany Sayed

“What’s the date today?” I ask Indigo, tapping my foot against the rubble. “Hm?” He sharpens his dagger against a rock, his right eye darting around the camp. “The date.”“Uh...147 seilus since it started. Can’t tell you more than that.”I sigh, wiping the sweat from my brow. Only 147?It feels like much longer. Every day is just a mess of smoke, fire, and pain. Every day we march closer to our inevitable death.Though death would be a relief these days.“How’s your eye?”

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“our house” by Amany Sayed

Most stories are about people. They’re by people, for people, from the perspective of people.This story is different.This is a story about a place.A place whose walls have heard secrets that still go untold. Whose floors have creaked time after time, whose ceilings have blocked out rain and snow and sleet, whose doors have been closed and slammed and left open at times, a place that’s housed family after family after family. It’s watched people fall in love, young people. The same people cry and...

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“Happy” by Amany Sayed

“Just because I am smiling doesn’t mean I am happy. Because it takes just one smile to hide a million tears.” Unknown I hate the car. I always get so dizzy, and to top it all off, it’s freezing, but my little brother has insisted on opening the window. I’m sitting in the back, right behind him, so the cold air directly hits me as we ride along the freeway, at sixty-something miles per hour.I should’ve bought gloves. Should’ve worn a jacket. Shoulda, woulda, coulda. It’s...

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bullet journal flipthroughhh https://amany.blog/happy-maymay-bullet-journal-spreadsmy-favorite-of-my-spreads-overall/ my blog~ http://amany.blog "I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don't say." Virginia Woolf writer/reader/artist/poet/blogger/dreamer/believer 🌻✨🌎