Bells Smetek

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“The witch of the ship” by Bells Smetek

Submitted to Contest #282

I know what happened. What she did. I’m telling you. Don’t believe her. Listen to me. Listen before it’s too late or in case I forget. It went like this: 1.We’re young but I feel old. Old and tired, as if I was supposed to do some great deeds but I got lost on the way, all tangled up. Between lectures, there’s Ari, her olive skin and eyes too light for her face. She’s the force driving me through it all. I learn for her, I pass exams for her, I haven’t quit this goddamned university for her. She lets me into her room in the evening. I expect...

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“The giedd of us two together” by Bells Smetek

Submitted to Contest #276

for K. He is introduced in the most bizarre way possible.“He’s you, but different,” my partner says. Ages later, there is this incredible pain. Ages before, a single stranded figure cries out on an empty island, “Eadwacer!” I knew that story from before. It didn’t make any sense and it was delightful in it. How countless scholars tried to understand the Old English verses, only to come up with nothing, with possibilities and doubts, and question marks. I love it dearly, for the very love of contrariness. * And so, he is introduced. We sit do...

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Author bio

they/them writer of prose and poetry, and everything in-between. yogi. also known as seriobells here and there.