Dorsa S.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

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“the director's muse” by Dorsa S.

Façades, no matter how temporary, will never be finished without the melodrama in the person playing the part and the melodrama of person making the part.In her demoralizing ballad, Thea fell to the floor gracefully, one hand over her chest and the other tangled into her hair. The opera house was rapt in her performance as the crestfallen goddess, muddled within her futility and visions of monsters bent to look as she currently is. Doleful, and hungry for more of something that never had existed for her. She cou...

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“cornell panic” by Dorsa S.

cw: slight strong languageMy heart is roasting on a spit, but in your defense, you weren't there to see it.I wish I was dead. Your computer shut down in the middle of the sociology essay; 3000 words on some ideology that juddered our wallets out of every penny that was there. It was a kernel panic, the face of the MacBook screen glaring a simple, "Your computer restarted because of a problem. Press a key or wait a few seconds to co...

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“less and less” by Dorsa S.

Wrecked with inebriation and dopamine, Jean steps at the mossy white picket fence. All the houses in the neighborhood looked identical. Beige painted walls and a white picket fence with a mediocre yard. Prompted to be like each other merely for the aesthetic.Her eyes narrow at the freshly mowed lawn laced with peonies. In her dreams, it was full of weeds. It used to be full of weeds. And Jean finally figured out that she didn't have the potential to tend for a patch of grass. She can't cradle a single thing 

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dec 5: 'the director's muse' nov 16: 'cornell panic' sept 19: 'less and less'