Amelia Sheldon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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“Essential Travel” by Amelia Sheldon

Submitted to Contest #47

Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. No threat of danger will stop you. Right or wrong, you are heading out and there is a song in your heart. As you walk, you think. As you think, you smile. But no one can see your delight. The light blue paper mask hides that. Unless someone were to look beyond your glasses, into your eyes. Then, they would see the new life. The new life sparkling there in the time of this new and rolling death. Should you be so celebratory within your heart? Singing a song as th...

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“The Dead Would Wait” by Amelia Sheldon

Submitted to Contest #39

Farid looked up at the soft swath of the Milky Way. He pulled down his mask to better breathe in the cool, black night. The rural life had its cultural and economic drawbacks, but the stars so visible above countered them all. He stood for another minute, breathing in and out slowly, his shoulders dropping as he felt himself shrink back to scale. He was a human. A speck of star stuff that would be extinguished, in a flash of fever, most likely, forgotten by the Universe. What a relief it would be, he thought, what a God damned relief. Fa...

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