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Ayanda Twala

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2025

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Dreams That Never Happened: A Memory Of Mary

Ayanda Twala

Submitted to Contest #313

Thunder rolled across Houston’s gray sky. In a small room at an old age home, an elderly woman stared out the window, her brown, droopy eyes filled with warmth. Her fingers were interlaced, lips curled into a smile as she whispered a name only she remembered.---1865 The sun scorched the Hurst plantation. Weeds thrived, hunger loomed, yet the slaves sang — not for joy, but to keep hope breathing. The same woman, now young, stood by a tall maize crop. She had golden-brown eyes and curly hair that clung to her damp skin. She led the song. She s...

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Atwood

Ayanda Twala

Submitted to Contest #312

Winston Atwood. A washed up 56-year-old writer gone rogue after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Now officially a nobody who was accused of killing his wife, Evelyn, in a facade of a ‘house invasion.’ That’s who I was going to be remembered as. After all my years giving my life to my work, my novels, my art… Just to be ruined by the death of my wife… My darling, innocent wife. Days in this world felt like a downward spiral to my inevitable decay and oblivion. No matter how hard I tried, the walls of my grand mansion would always feel...

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