Elena B.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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“The Favorite Son” by Elena B.

Submitted to Contest #165

He saw it all happen in slow motion: the chubby hands pressing against the wooden drawers, the cupboard shaking, the blue vase tumbling at the top. He jumped over the couch and pulled Charlie away from the imminent disaster. For a fraction of a second, the vase remained suspended in the air. The toddler landed on his diaper-padded bum as the vase came crashing down. The sound sent a shockwave through his ears.“Uh-oh,” Charlie uttered, looking at the pieces of blue and white ceramic that had exploded across the floor.Toby held him back by the...

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“The Donor” by Elena B.

Submitted to Contest #163

[TW: depictions of death]For the better part of the course, I had presumed the eye sockets to be empty. Where the eyeballs had gone was unclear to me, but I rested in the comfort of not having to stare into them.One autumn afternoon, however, I had dared to peek through the slit between her eyelids. I had become desensitized to the smell of formalin by then. That, and to the sight of corpses. One of my lab-partners pulled the green sheet away, unveiling the body on the metal table, and the fumes that seemed to become more potent week after w...

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