Dannie Olguin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“Yellow, Blue, and Coco Man, Too” by Dannie Olguin

Submitted to Contest #28

One minute, I’m pushing too-sweet frosting across my plate and feeling awkward around all the new family, the next, I’m huddled under the table with cousins I’ve never met, trying my best to keep my little brother quiet and still until the danger passes. I peek under the long, white tablecloth. Wedding cake and shattered dishes litter the hard floor. Men in shiny black dress shoes run through the cake leaving white and blue footprints behind. Chairs and even some tables are...

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“You Can't Go Home Again” by Dannie Olguin

Submitted to Contest #3

I exhale. The cigarette smoke swirls with the fog of my breath and billows in the wind  toward what used to be my home.  “Home,” I whisper bitterly as I grind the butt of my last Marlboro under my mud-caked boot. You know what they say: A house doesn’t make a home. Too bad, too, because this is one hell of a house. A real Barbie Dream House. Three stories, not including a finished att...

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