Donna Quiroz

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“The Teacher And The Reflection” by Donna Quiroz

Submitted to Contest #101

The Teacher And The Reflection 1674 words Today I watched myself in the mirror, I saw the reflection of a teacher giving a speech to a rowdy class. It was boring. Into the box of VHS tapes I dove, tossing "Lonesome Dove," and grabbing the tape with the specific sounds I needed. I stuffed the tape in my vcr, fast forwarding and rewinding until I had the goods taped and added to my presentation. Then I found a piece of foam and some gray material. In moments it had transformed into a believable fin. I glued on some Velcro strap...

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“The Fire” by Donna Quiroz

Submitted to Contest #98

The Fire 2353 words Reedsy Contest #98 Origin Stories She knew she couldn't go back there, but Aiden couldn't help herself, after all it was home, her home. She had spent her childhood there, and several of her teen years, first with her mom and dad, then alone with her mother. "What is so important about "home" anyways?" She spoke aloud as she wove in and out of the traffic on I-5. Home meant so much more than shelter, or safety, it was tied into her memories of everything warm, safe and loving. It was the best place to grow up, out a...

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“The Love Of His Life” by Donna Quiroz

Submitted to Contest #96

#96 XENIA 2259 words The Love of His Life She shuddered as she looked into a room, the guest room, she supposed, although she had known it by many other names since the home’s construction in 1993. "That room up there", the "empty room", "his old room", "Dad’s room", until finally, "the guest room". It was just a small room probably 12 foot by ten, with a regular size closet that had sliding wooden doors, the cheap kind that always had to be reset on the track above. It was bigger than a jail cell, but for one of the family’s members, ...

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“Contest#95 KARL'S DOORS” by Donna Quiroz

Submitted to Contest #95

Contest #95 2445words DECISION TIME KARL’S DOORS It was just a piece of pink, ratty looking paper, driven by the slight breeze, floating past the other junk in the gutter. It rolled and bounced over cigarette butts, bottle caps and other pieces of discarded paper to face it’s demise in the mouth of a hungry pigeon. The pigeon pounced upon it immediately, believing there was some delicious morsel to be found on the dirty page of someone’s receipt book. Oh, there was a morsel all right, but luckily the pigeon couldn't read, and missed the scri...

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“"Josetta Was..."” by Donna Quiroz

Submitted to Contest #93

TW: drugs, risky behaviour Josetta Was Submitted for Donna Quiroz FOLLOW 0 likes 0 comments May 12, 2021 AMERICAN COMING OF AGE CONTEMPORARY Josetta was a party friggin dog. I mean there was partying, and then there was PARTYING!!! Josetta could out party all of us, and come back for another head stand at the keg while we were puking in the alley.She could out smoke, out drink and out party favor the entire Junior class at our high school. Everyone except Toni and me, we have been in Party Wars ...

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Donna Quiroz writes on Quora, Linked In ,Google, Yelp, Facebook, and....