Christina Vasquez

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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“The Words You Won’t Hear” by Christina Vasquez

Submitted to Contest #54

There’s a place on Ives where tree roots have kicked up cobblestones, rearranging the brick sidewalk into breaking waves. I remember the morning you tripped on a corner and I couldn’t catch you. You fell, bled, and I fell too— soaking in the pain that seeped out your skin. We sat by that silent asphalt stream, and seeing your twisted up ankle hurt me more than I could understand.  I used to wait for you outside your classrooms, after third period and fifth, each week experimenting how I arranged my limbs when I greeted you. I wanted to...

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“If They Come, They Will Come From the Stars” by Christina Vasquez

Submitted to Contest #51

Alessandra never knew much about the stars— after all, her father always said astronomy was just speculation, laced with cautionary footnotes about what its study would do to one’s psyche if investigated too eagerly. It was not worth pause, not today in 2054, and certainly not in the future. What lay in the stars, among and behind them, did not matter when the ground beneath men shifted and melted as they walked, and the line between earth and metal and Hell grew thinner each year. She still liked to look at them, in the way she could. But t...

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