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Dina Galarza- Mapes

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2025

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The Accident

Dina Galarza- Mapes

CW: Car Accident, Medical Complications, Sexually Explicit Content, Fiction~|~ All I saw when I turned around was white lights and heard a sudden thud as I flew across the street into an open field. The car accident changed my entire life. It wasn’t really an accident though. The man saw me in the middle of the road with my highlighter yellow vest. He saw me when my blinking red traffic baton was up in the air. He knew he had to stop. That man chose to continue to accelerate even when he knew his tires were worn and it was raining. It was a...

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The Lark

Dina Galarza- Mapes

Submitted to Contest #313

CW: Abuse, Betrayal, Gore Copper and iron have a very distinct taste- an even more specific aroma. When I walked into the building on Lark Avenue, I didn’t expect what happened. I didn’t want it to happen. The memorable scent of this night will torment me for the rest of my days.~|~The Clementine family had a strange household line-up. The husband, Ross, worked full time as a manager at the local grocery store. The wife, Rhowena, was the oldest of three sisters. Her sisters, Rhosari and Rhachel, were down on their luck and had to live in th...

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Alex's Intelligence

Dina Galarza- Mapes

Submitted to Contest #312

CW: Themes of violence/abuse Alexander Timland has always wondered if he was real. His mother, Alexa, died when he was just a boy. His father, William, was an assistant with a computer company but decided to leave. Alex was left with the lingering question of who he was because of all this loss.The now 24 year old is the top of his class-he was finally a coding engineer. Siri and he have gotten closer and closer as all the years passed by and he was finally going to ask her on a date. In the card he purchased for her, he wrote, “I love you,...

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One

Dina Galarza- Mapes

Submitted to Contest #311

Compared to the purple Landinianodan’s, we are pathetic. The Landinianodan people were purple, tall, beyond muscular, telepathic, and spoke an entirely different language. Luckily for us, we had our bio-organism translator chest plate or we wouldn’t have understood their threat. “We will be back soon.” We knew that was more than a threat; it was a promise. Humanity always had a fascination with things that are different. First, it was the animal hybrid experiments, then the cybernetic humans (cyborgs), and now, the Scientists wanted to comb...

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The Type Writer's Dillema

Dina Galarza- Mapes

Submitted to Contest #310

Content warning: This story contains violence, traumatic references, and mental-health themesAs I sit on the ground, surrounded by falling fire, ash, and thundering skies, I realize that I have a problem that I can fix. The events surrounding the biggest disaster of 2025 in Montivillaton were a little garbled in my mind because of all the hospital visits, but I knew it had to do with that damned type-writer.This all started three weeks ago. What do orange juice, computers, and a struggling author have in common? My mother. She was always bus...

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