Calypso Cassiopeia

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

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“My Little Dove” by Calypso Cassiopeia

Submitted to Contest #161

“You came down here to tell us something, did you?” Mum asks, everyone sitting around the table; Mum, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Jean, Uncle Daniel, and a few others. I feel seen for once—as I sit at the head of the table—but it doesn’t feel good.  “Well, yes,” I clear my throat, my lungs heaving with all the grief I have shoved down for all these years. It’s time to tell them the secret I have been keeping for four years.  “Spit it out then,” Grandma hurries, her voice scratchy and breathless from the countless cigarettes she ha...

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“Cherry Pits and Immortality ” by Calypso Cassiopeia

Submitted to Contest #160

I pray for rain, but it does not come. As I stand here, on this land that I could navigate with my eyes closed, this land that has been desolate as all hell for all twelve years of my life and probably longer, I watch as the wind blows, tumbleweeds and dried leaves blowing everywhere. There is nothing in front of me, except my very own bare feet, scuffed and dried for the few years in which I have had no shoes, unable to pay for them. The roof has been rattling for what seems like hours on end, creating a ringing in my ears. I stand here, a ...

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