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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023
Submitted to Contest #190
Under a sky ablaze with the fading embers of the setting sun, Rafael stood upon the parched earth, his gaze affixed upon the distant mountains. The desert wind whispered its secrets, laden with the scent of blood and the cries of the fallen. Hatred brewed in the deepest recesses of his heart, fomenting a thirst for retribution that could not be quenched.Rafael had once known a different life, filled with the laughter of children and the touch of a woman who had shared his bed and his soul. But that was before the men came, their faces hidden...
Submitted to Contest #189
At the heart of my days' journey, I found myself beneath the blackened vault of a wooded reach where the true path was lost to sight. The land lay waste, split open by a sun that bore down relentless, like the headsman's axe held aloft, ever poised to fall. The trail stretched forth, swallowed by the dark, the horizon twisted by the infernal heat into grotesque shapes. My being had been naught but a long voyage across the measureless waste, a bitter strife against the unforgiving earth. The sun had turned my skin to a lattice of parched le...
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