Ana Paula

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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“Alana's Fate” by Ana Paula

Submitted to Contest #68

This was supposed to be the best day of our lives. Tom had proposed during lunchtime in the campus cafeteria. Just the two of us. Some people might need a huge, magical proposal, not me. “Look Alana,” He’d said, “I know I don’t have much to my name. I know you could do much better than me, but I’m too selfish and I want you to be mine. Forever. I love you and I want you to be my wife.” It took me a few seconds to reslise he was proposing. When I didn’t answer he went on. “We are young, I know. If you think it’s best we get our degrees first ...

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“The New Life” by Ana Paula

Submitted to Contest #68

This is gonna work. This has got to work. Shev had ran it by me a thousand times. We spent the whole night trying to talk ourselves out of it but damn if we could. Get in. Get the money. Get out, I repeated to myself. Why did I hve to be the one to do it? Ah yes, Shev was the clever one. I could never pull out what he’d done. The man convinced half a dozen people he was the new employee at the bank this morning. I’d paid two boys 20 bucks to hit the glass door causing a distraction. Shev turned the system off and I got in with the gun. We’d ...

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“Isla's Decision” by Ana Paula

Submitted to Contest #68

The bell finally rang, pulling me out of my staring trance. I’ been looking out the window for about three minutes without actually seeing anything. I’d finished my final test fifteen minutes before but didn’t hand it in. I wanted to be the last to walk out. I needed to tell him what I’d been keeping from him these past few months. Mr. Pollar had taken his glasses off, his weary eyes too old for his thirty-something face. Three years I had been obsessing over those deep brown eyes that tell a million stories when they look at you. And right ...

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