Em Krabs

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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“Until Satyid Voices Wake Us” by Em Krabs

Submitted to Contest #279

If my mother reaches Loki’s Star, I wonder. I wonder if she’ll remember us. Remember the day she left me on Earth, on the beach in Varkala. It was the last day of the final year of evacuation. Most of the men in our home village, my father included, had long since departed. That left my mother, Rakta, alone to care for me and my sister. After the final EVAC order was announced by remainders of Maharashtrian government — the last carrier launch, before the last evening in memory—she packed up her subzhi and cold rotis from last night’s meal ...

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“A Long Day's Rain” by Em Krabs

Submitted to Contest #271

And so, the longest day in Mogali's life would end up being the shortest. Every now and again, she heard the metallic tinkle of her little trigger-ring play against the explosive payload of her suicide vest. It sounded almost musical, like the childhood dominoes she remembered from long ago. Just across the main intersection of Zaibunnisa Street, three women were drinking chai, chatting something about school, something about a boy, something about the monsoon rain being very late. It was a busy day in Karachi, but to her, it was the very l...

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Ex-security guard with a focus on the strange, the unusual, and the unseen.