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We take and we take until there is nothing left. And now, we have broken the world with our selfishness. Because the sky is shattering. Because the sun is too hot. Because the sun is too hot and the rain is still falling. And itâs falling and it does not stop. Because God is angry with us, with the world. Because by the time I step out, the leaves will be on fire and it will be...
Stuck in a world of our own, Humanity was always a world away, It was just the sea, my mother and me. I should have listened, The sea has destroyed us. They say water has memory. Imagine what a gigantic body of water could hold; the deception of sailors against their wives,...
I wondered if they knew.They looked so happy, like in that moment, they were infinite. I wondered if they knew it wouldn't last for very long. If they did, they didnât show it. They reveled in the moment. They were okay that something was going on now. Noisy children, dogs and laughter.Human beings donât fascinate me. At least they donât anymore. Weâre predictable creatures, all of the time.I knew how this was going to end. I was too blind to accept it. Flickering images. Memories I should let go of are the ones I cli...
**Trigger warning: self-harm âPerhaps the greatest risk any of us will ever take is to be seen as we really are-â Cinderella. The prettiest people are the most pretentious. Thatâs the difference between me and them. I know Iâm broken. I know I need fixing. But the world isnât a wish-granting fountain. We donât wish for things and they magically happen. Thatâs the difference between fairy tales and the real world. Most peopleâs lives are fairy tales. ...
"She remembered who she was, and the game changed-" Lalah Delia.âI told you to come back home, Adanna. Youâll never be good enough there.âMy mother. The woman I know loves me so much, but times like this, I'm not so sure. Iâll never be good enough for her. It doesnât matter what part of the world I am.âIâm not coming home, Mum. I canât.â I could. I know that, but coming home means accepting defeat. It would mean I had failed and while I have, a couple of times actually, I donât believe failure means total def...
"Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness-" Colleen Hoover."Would you like to tell me why you're here, Miss Valencia?"Try therapy, they said. It would help, they said. I didn't need therapy; I needed to talk to someone.It was sad that I had to pay someone to listen to me.People suck."Can you keep a secret, Doc?"I expect her to look intrigued. Sadly, it doesn't seem like it's the first time she's heard that line. She gives me a blank loo...
âMaybe we just lived between hurting and healing-â Benjamin Alire SĂĄenzPeople do bad things, but some people make one mistake that changes everything. The mistake consumes them. I am some people.Scars were a sign that you had been hurt, but you had healed. Scars fade, but they remind you of what had happened. She didnât have scars because her wound was fresh. It never got time to heal. Three years had passed, but it didnât matter how much time had passed when her wound was cut open so frequently.âŠâŠ.âDavina, wou...
âI hate you. I hate you so much,â I scowled at her, looking directly into her eyes. She taught me not to believe the words of other people if they were afraid to meet your eyes. She said it meant they were lying. I lied.When she grabbed those car keys, I should have stopped her. If I had known what would have happened, I would have stopped her but, who knows anything? We think we do, and then we realize we donât know. Not even close.If only there was a way to go back in time, to prevent me from shouting those words. If only ...
The moral of the story is that you never fall for who youâre supposed to.To you, the one who took everything that was once mine, the one Iâm still learning to forgive.People want to be good, but the world we live in wonât let them. You were the one who taught me that. You told me to learn to give people second chances because everyone deserved to feel loved.You called me a pathological liar once. You were right; I am but, so are you.You taught me that family is the most important thing but, I didnât understand ...
I waited for maybe a minute before I opened the taxi door. I had momentarily forgotten where I was until the taxi driver looked at me through the glass and communicated everything that I could almost hear it come out of his mouth: âWhy you de look me? You no get hand?â I was now in Lagos, a place where doors werenât opened for you if it wasnât the personâs job to. I sighed.As I opened the taxi door and my feet hit the ground, I was hit almost instantly with the Lagosian air I had once loved and now grown to resent. I had no luggage...
The thing about cancer is that it doesnât come with a warning. Thereâs no way to prepare for it before it happens. Like most things in life anyway, cancer ambushes you in many forms and sometimes it feels like thereâs no way you can hold it back because there really is no way so, it consumes you and you canât fight it. Sometimes though, the cancer gives you space to breathe, like just for one moment of your life, you can pretend you donât have it. The thing is that you donât know how many moments youâll have like that before it destroys y...
Have you ever seen a movie where the good guys donât win? Iâd bet anything you havenât. But, Iâm certain youâve seen one where youâre so sure the main character canât die, but everyone else can. In those movies, the main character isnât always the classic definition of âgoodâ, and the movie is usually about their redemption and when their time to be redeemed does come, they die because everyone dies, eventually. Movies just donât tell us that every time. But death is something fantasy and reality have in common, it just seems prettier in ...
"Time heals all wounds." Joseph is hoping this quote really is the truth because if not, he's wasting his time and hers. Immediately after he left prison, he promised himself that he would come to see her. All his attempts had been futile though because she didn't want to come near him and that was understandable. In her eyes, he would always be a monster. Yet, he wondered if there was a way to change all that when she had requested he attend this meeting. The very one she's late for.Jacqueline, a woman n...
I believe in God. I believe in love and kindness. I also believe that life is too short to not be happy.
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