Amy Arora

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2023

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“Love liberates” by Amy Arora

Submitted to Contest #237

The next alarm will ring at 3:15am. My eyes blur and the phone almost slips from my hand, but catastrophic consequences are averted, just in time. I lie back gently on the bed, my movements as subtle as a ninja who is trying too hard. Stillness. I am scared to breathe, but as long as you are breathing, I am allowed. I release one breath, then another, then sleep takes over. It is a sleep that is never quite complete. Two hours and sixteen minutes later, I drag both of us from slumber, and I attempt to master the life-giving skill that I only...

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“Dancing on top of the world” by Amy Arora

Submitted to Contest #199

December in the southern hemisphere is summer, but she hadn’t got used to that yet. When Ana had pictured her destination months previously, she had thought of campfires and thermal underwear. As it was, she now wondered whether it would be tasteless to walk around a music festival wearing only a bikini. She’d seen enough men wearing speedos to think that it probably wouldn’t be a problem, but she slung on a beach wrap a...

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“Top of the class” by Amy Arora

Submitted to Contest #195

The box bedroom at the back of the house was a hallowed place. Heavy curtains and shaded lightbulbs gave the impression that it was trapped in time. Leila bent to remove her shoes then decided against it, and placed one trainer over the threshold, then the other.The wall ahead was loaded with cups, ribbons, and medals. Her mother always left a candle burning; the scent of lavender clung to the nostrils. Leila perused the shelf: award for academic achievement, first in class, top student… best in show. A framed photograph...

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“Action heroes are easy” by Amy Arora

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #194

There are fourteen minutes before the bomb explodes. Greg Powers, bomb disposal expert and all-round man, is kneeling before it, talking urgently to his superiors via the device in his ear. Beside him stands a woman, who shows her anxiety by shaking her long auburn hair back and forth. Her clothes are too tight but her body is so bodacious that it doesn’t matter. At thirteen minutes, she begins to sweat, ...

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Author bio

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” - Ray Bradbury I'm a writer, editor, teacher, and mother, living in the South of France. I've written two novels (so far unpublished), but I've stalled a bit on my writing lately, so I'm challenging myself to write one short story every week using the Reedsy prompts. Let's see how it goes! You can read more of my writing at amyarora.com

Shortlisted 1 story ⭐️

Contest #194
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