Claudiu Popa

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2024

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“Dallas” by Claudiu Popa

Submitted to Contest #285

I’d never been more than a hundred miles away from home. I was a Michigan kid who grew up in Plymouth, near Detroit. Very prim and proper place, upper middle class. My dad was a company man who worked himself up to manage a small factory in the area. Mom left when I was ten and he remarried twice. You can imagine I spent my rebellious teens hating on the guy. In hindsight, he was doing his best. He deserved a chance at happiness for himself, but back then I took it as a betrayal. By college time I was ready to go to California or England or ...

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“No apologies” by Claudiu Popa

Submitted to Contest #278

I walk into the bathroom to an assault on my sense of smell. I don’t need to see it to know but sure enough, the turd is there, floating in the water. I hate the smell of other people’s shit. It’s all bad, sure, but I know the nuances of mine: somehow sharp, cutting. This has a nauseating dullness to it.  “Mabel!” I call to my youngest. “Dear, you forgot to flush the toilet. Can you please come here and do it?” “It wasn’t me.” I hear her high-pitched voice behind me before I even have a chance to turn. Was she following me around again?...

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