🎉 Our next novel writing master class starts in –! Claim your spot →
Advice, insights and news
Free 10-day publishing courses
Free publishing webinars
Free EPUB & PDF typesetting tool
Launch your book in style
Assemble a team of pros
A weekly short story contest
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020
Submitted to Contest #36
Entry on 9th AprilDear DiaryHi!Am I supposed to say hi to a diary? Maybe I am, I don’t know.I knew…I just knew starting this was a silly idea.But that idiot Sean, he gifted this dratted thing to me! Something about it being a good vent for my pent-up feelings and inner emotions.Inner emotions, my butt! He knows very well that writing a journal isn’t what I do.After all, what the heck should I even write?“I woke up in the morning, I brushed my teeth, I ate three biscuits, I took bath…”What can I even write at this time, anyway? I’m sitting ar...
Submitted to Contest #35
Lilah Martins hated spring. She knew it made her weird. Eccentric. Some people even called her mad. After all, what was there to hate? Beautiful flowers blooming all around, the entire country bursting into colour in a matter of a few days, the temperature not too hot and not too cold (just right, in the everlasting words of Goldilocks). Lilah got all that. Admired the beauty, even. But she still hated the season. She much preferred the fierce beauty of winter, its cold perfection, the exquisite uniqueness of snowflakes, and ice-skating. And...
I’m in the park. Huh. I didn’t even realise I’d left the apartment, and my feet have already taken me inside that gate. I can’t help myself sometimes, I know that. They’ve told me not to leave the apartment, but I’m already out. I don’t feel in control of my own legs, but right now, I just don’t care. The park is just so beautiful today. The twilight sun is shining just right on those pretty roses, the grass looks so green and pretty, the paths are just begging to be used. I love springtime, don’t you? I know, I know, it’s not safe to go out...
Ananya Ak has not written a bio yet!
Oops, you need an account for that!
Log in with your social account:
Or enter your email: