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Brenda Black

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

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I Miss You

Brenda Black

Submitted to Contest #40

Our eyes met across the playground, the air was a bit cold and too dry if I recalled correctly and tears had been running down my cold cheeks, I was sprawled on the dirty ground, my skirt slightly wet and dirtied, I could have felt my palm turning red. Children had surrounded me, their laughs echoing in my ears mockingly as they pointed out my many differences. You were a bit of a distance from me, your hair curling into your face as your eyes widened at the sight of my miserable form. I look away, accepting my faith as one of the girls...

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It's never too late to reach the stars

Brenda Black

Submitted to Contest #39

I could remember it like it was yesterday. The air felt different and I could feel the biting cold on my arms and cheeks. I was in the countryside further up into the mountains, it was pitch black all around me and my source of light was the moon and the twinkling stars that gazed back at me, I couldn’t help but stare in awe at how bright they were, no longer hidden by the constant light pollution that was found easily in the city. I waited in the clearing in front of my grandparent’s home, hearing my father calling to me as his figure came ...

7 likes

I Wish I Never Went Viral

Brenda Black

Submitted to Contest #38

Just a click and everyone could know your name, just a second and every stranger that walks past you will immediately recognize your face. You no longer become a faceless entity in their world but someone they know, while to you, they remain as strangers that want to touch you, take pictures of you or use you.An upload of you doing something for fun, suddenly becoming seen by eyes that you will never know the names of, by strangers that will say things that will make you uncomfortable, cry or feel loved.They will desire more content from you...

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Inconvenient

Brenda Black

Submitted to Contest #38

Tired eyes gazed into the darkness of a barely visible ceiling, his bladder full and he tilted his head to look at the time through his bleary vision. It was 3 in the morning and he groaned in irritation before he sluggishly removed himself from the warmth of his bed and the comforting blankets he found himself tangled in between and instant regret filled him as the cold breeze blew on to their bare skin, they shivered in discomfort, longing to return to his sheets. They rubbed their eyes as they yawned before he noticed bright light peeking...

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