Ava Baum

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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“Bella” by Ava Baum

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 m...

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“The Color Of A Fighter” by Ava Baum

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...

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Ciao! I’m a brown haired blue eyed word-lover and Brooklyn native. Books have been my choice of escape from an ugly and beautiful world. FAVORITE WORD: Ardent