Caodi Achim

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

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“An Unexpected Visitor” by Caodi Achim

12:39 A.M. The rain had begun to pour down on the city streets. There was a knock at her door. For a second, she froze. Who could be bugging her at this hour? It was much too late for solicitors, and even more so for guests. The knock came again. Sighing, Iota stretched her arms back behind her head, then, pushing back her chair, rose to answer the call. What she was not expecting to see was Kiyin, covered in blood with his uniform jacket ripped in several places. Yet he didn’t look harmed. In fact, he looked invigorated. There was a w...

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“An Unexpected Visitor” by Caodi Achim

12:39 A.M. The rain had begun to pour down on the city streets. There was a knock at her door. For a second, she froze. Who could be bugging her at this hour? It was much too late for solicitors, and even more so for guests. The knock came again. Sighing, Iota stretched her arms back behind her head, then, pushing back her chair, rose to answer the call. What she was not expecting to see was Kiyin, covered in blood with his uniform jacket ripped in several places. Yet he didn’t look harmed. In fact, he looked invigorated. There was a w...

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“The Plague Doctor” by Caodi Achim

Submitted to Contest #154

I first noticed the man on a sunny day in June. At the time I lived in a downtown suburban area. My apartment was on the fourth floor of a new complex, where I lived with my older sister and her boyfriend while I took my prereqs in nursing from the local community college. None of that is particularly important other than the fact that I’d never seen anything out of the ordinary. As a nineteen-year-old woman, I even felt relatively safe taking jogs on my own in the neighborhood. I felt safe in that neighborhood. Then, one day...

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“A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures” by Caodi Achim

Submitted to Contest #103

I set the camera on the counter. The man behind it looked at me. He was young and attractive-average height, medium build. Two grey eyes stuck out at me from behind his long bangs. This place had been difficult to find. With phones and social media, there aren’t many photo print stores left out there. There aren’t many cameras like this, either. It had been my mother’s, one she’d used quite often back in the early 80s. I didn’t know all the photos she'd had on there, but there were surely some of my mother, and maybe even me wh...

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I'll probably post short stories here to kill my writer's block