Avelino De Castro

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

Stories (8)

8 Stories

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“The Floating Party” by Avelino De Castro

The Floating Party Mathius hated people like his hero Charles Bukowski did. He preferred to spend his time alone in his room writing and eating Cheetos, Doritos, and Hostess cupcakes. He washed the unhealthy snacks down with Coca Cola. Mathius was twenty-four, and just starting to gain recognition for his writing. He won some prizes, and published some short stories. His work was getting noticed....

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“Three Story Joe” by Avelino De Castro

Three Story Joe By Avelino de Castro 2650 words The cruel neighbors called simple, kind, and sensitive Jose Fernandes “Three Story Joe.” Jose was a gentle Portuguese man who owned the immaculately kept, three-family house on the corner, of Exeter and Summit in Hope Village of Providence. Hope Village was ritzy, and expensive. Joe’s house was the only three-story dwell...

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“The Roast” by Avelino De Castro

TW: cannibalism, violence, infanticide Ursula Entertains 1206 words By Avelino de Castro Hortence and Ursula were ancient. Their facial features were chiseled cruell...

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“Artificial Intelligence” by Avelino De Castro

Artificial Intelligence By Annette Racine, and Avelino de Castro The evening wasn’t going as expected, or planned. The caterer Claudette, the best in town, had canceled at the last minute, the bitch. Of course, she blamed it on her kid. Claudette said her son Sebastian had a fever. Opal thrummed with nervous energy, anxiety, and more than a little bit of raw annoyance. She had ...

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“The Social Disease” by Avelino De Castro

What follows is a series of email, text, and telephone conversations between two very different sisters, Brigette, and Betty Carson. Enthusiastic, and ebulliant, together, they could be manic. The distance between them, and the differences in them. had dampened their relationship since Betty went to LA.Brigette lives at home with their parents in Foxham, Massachusetts. She is a nineteen-year-old, promiscuous sophomore at The University of Rhode Island. Her sister Betty is a twenty-four-year-old newlywed, marrie...

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“Keep Writing” by Avelino De Castro

A man leaned back, in a precarious way, in a wooden chair. The chair was not designed to recline. The skeletal man was tipped precariously on the back legs of the unfortunate chair. He held his balance with his legs, and outstretched arms. He was a gymnast of sorts with no audience…but me. There was nobody else in the conference room of the Dunkin’ Donuts on Spalding Avenue. Nice. Just lovely. I’d got off my fat ass, made an attempt at a conventional social interaction, and what do I get?&nbs...

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“Trolls and Tribulations” by Avelino De Castro

Trolls and Tribulations George Foros’ shopping cart had a rickety wheel. It stuck, and jiggled, and bounced. His shopping cart was the repository for all his earthly possessions. He needed a new shopping cart.He wandered down the cracked, and crazed asphalt road that led to the Goodman’s Extract Plant, a now defunct manufacturer of flavored syrups.George enjoyed being alone. He lived for a few weeks in the homeless camp that spread from the underpass of Route 32 up the hill...

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“Average” by Avelino De Castro

I slumped forward in the polystyrene chair, and stared at the video screen on the desk before me. There it was; my personal test result. I had just completed the Universal Evaluation, and Placement Assessment Test, and my score sat winking at me from the video screen; a number between 0.000000 and 200.000000. It was impossible, ridiculous, there had to be a mistake. I gripped the hope that the machine had failed, but I knew the truth, and the machine had confirmed it for me in the bluntest possible way. Unlike...

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Author bio

Avelinosblog.com published in magazines like Alienskin and Fuk'd Movement since 2004, won prizes for prose and poetry. Author of the novels "The Wizard Who Stole Manhattan (favorably reviewed by Kirkus.) , Chasing Your Tale, and The Muses Made Me Do It. Avelinosblog.com