Deira Acosta Quintero

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

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“Cara and ME” by Deira Acosta Quintero

It had been Cara’s first day of freshman year in high school. She had her outfit planned and no one was going to tell her otherwise. It had been an olive green crop top with loose boyfriend jeans. Cara had been nervous. I know this because it was the first thing she had told me that day. She had told her best friend at the time that she was ready for the world. She wanted to be involved and get her act together. Cara wanted to make her parents proud. A trait that we both shared. The statement alone had exuded Cara’s ext...

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“Two People Standing” by Deira Acosta Quintero

Submitted to Contest #39

It had been six months since the Pentagon had released the video of those sent from above. The reaction had been slower than anticipated as the world had already been in a state of chaos from a pandemic. No one could have anticipated how that video signified so much more than just a simple encounter with an extraterrestrial being. If anything it was a subtle threat. The pandemic made it hard to focus on anything other than the inability for life to go back to normal. The attack had blindsided everyone. They came in mother-ships that based...

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