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Ava Baum

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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Ava Baum

TW: suicide, mental health Today is the day it stops. She is still in bed, the sun high in the sky, another night spent staring and staring and staring and staring and stari—I have to stop—ing and staring, her hands clawed around a rectangular hellhole, the flickering lights brightening her dull eyes and—I should stop—a muscle in her thumb is twitching from the up and down movement that brings the next thing and the next and the next and— There are birds chirping. Her mother’s alarm is ringing. Her father is in the kitchen...

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Bella

Ava Baum

Submitted to Contest #101

New apartments smell like freshly cleaned floors, pine, and empty rooms. That's how mine smells, till the mover, a guy with arms of tattoos, comes up with my three boxes. He looks around, the boxes piled in his hands like they weigh nothing, then looks at me.“Where you want me to put these?”“Um.” I say. “Anywhere is good.”He puts them down where he's standing, right at the door, and points at the window. “That's a nice view.” I give him a polite smile and a five dollar tip; he leaves, and then I'm the only person in my too-white apartment.——...

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The Color Of A Fighter

Ava Baum

Submitted to Contest #98

TW: sexual abuse, physical abuse, institutional abuse The boat is made from wood we found behind the cross-filled cemetery, buried under yellowing furniture and carriage carcasses with no wheels and rusted pails. A graveyard for trash behind a graveyard for people. You told me there's no difference between the two. We took the wood that didn't break when I jumped on it and built a sagging boat with a sagging hull. You brought me red paint, said it would make the boat look like it belongs to me, and I had grinned. We missed Church to paint it...

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