Anuradha Dev

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Secret cuts” by Anuradha Dev

Submitted to Contest #49

I don't understand why these adults don't mind their own business. I mean, I know I should not have let a stupid kid pull me into an outrageous bet. But at the end of the day, it is my life that is on line, not theirs. Why do they care? Now I have been dragged to the school Headmistress office. As if she would magically fix everything wrong in my mind. Sometimes I think, why is it so difficult for me to deal with these people, talk to them, let them speak to me as if I am retarded? Other kids do it just fine. And in the end, you ha...

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“The Bleeding Heart ” by Anuradha Dev

Submitted to Contest #46

The Bleeding Heart Those displays of concrete lives, real and fiction, have attracted me towards them since I was a child. As a child, when my mother wanted to take me shopping, I would cry and agree to go when she would let me visit the bookstore nearby. While she would be shopping for laces and utensils, I would drift off to my paradise. The musky smell of paper, shiny rainbow-colored covers pull me inside. I would look at those beautiful rows of glee, heartbreaks, and crimes. The sight gratified my soul in a way that...

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Author bio

Anuradha Dev lives in Indore, India with her two teenager kids, husband and a beagle. She loves to write about kids, relationships and love.