Dominique Sahir-Walls

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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“I Wanna Dance With Somebody ” by Dominique Sahir-Walls

Submitted to Contest #93

The music is too loud. No one is dancing, so the gap in the living room echoes the lyrics that blast from the speaker without a person to bounce off of.  Everybody is sitting. Squished into the three seater couch, and crammed on the edge of the floor sectioned into their familiar groups. Everyone but me. Trying to take up as little space as I can, I am standing in the doorway that leads to the kitchen pretending that my phone is more interesting than any possible conversation. Really, I am making a list of all of the reasons I should ha...

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“Together” by Dominique Sahir-Walls

Submitted to Contest #9

Our mom had a way of shooting a person dead with her words. Like an automated gun, she could fire off insults with effortless speed that needed no guided target. Her enemies' emotional being would be so riddled with holes it wouldn't matter if any arteries were hit, the damage alone was the death. But in that way that all weapons had little say over their use, my mother found herself falling into the wrong hands on more than one occasion. Hands that would hold her in all the ways she was built to be controlled. Hands that laid waste to ...

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Author bio

"I can tell you everything that went wrong in my life, or I can tell you what I did after. " This is the after. It took me 27 years to realize I was chasing a future without a dream; having cast mine to the side for the logic of a nine to five. Becoming a writer was equated to disappointment and poverty by counsellors and naysayers, to the tune of me reconsidering. Yet the passion still called. Starting my debut novel at the beginning of 2020, I found my newly discovered enthusiasm manifesting in more than just writing. I wanted to talk about it in all forms; books, shows, and movies. This resulted in Writing 2 Riches; a Youtube Channel about the struggles and realities of working towards completing my first book, Views From the Back Row on CWF Network; a podcast that gives a different perspective to movies, and finally, Reali-Tea of Fiction; a podcast on tv shows, books, and everything in between. I discovered joy in doing things beyond just working for someone else, and fulfillment in taking steps towards a career I can be proud of. I have not done anything that most would consider “noteworthy”, but a blank page speaks of possibilities, and this is my first chapter.