Emily R Bellas

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020

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4 Stories

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“Flickers of an Unfullfilling Life” by Emily R Bellas

Submitted to Contest #108

The couch was comfortable. It was one of those expensive ones that they advertise on TV during reruns of Grey’s Anatomy on ABC. The ones they want you to think you can afford when actually it costs about a month’s rent and isn’t even that cozy. This one is, though. And knowing her sister, she probably got it on sale or won it in some kind of home furnishing Instagram contest. Nina hated the couch. She hated the rest of the room, too. The exquisitely polished, wood-stained coffee table at her knees was a “fluke find at a garage sale” which i...

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“The Loudest of All” by Emily R Bellas

Submitted to Contest #80

“We’re going to be late!” With an unlit cigarette hanging from her mouth, Momma grabbed my baby sister from the crib in the living room. Lorena started to cry from the sudden movement and the sound of Momma calling out to me, “Nancy, let’s get moving!”. She couldn’t see my eyes as I peeked through the gap in the slightly open bathroom door. While frantically grabbing for things on the overrun kitchen table, she bounced Lorena up and down on her hip to soothe her.“Momma, just go on without me! I can make it to school on my own.” I made m...

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“Without Even Knowing” by Emily R Bellas

Submitted to Contest #79

The bell tolled and the girls looked at each other, silent desperation in their eyes. They listened. One chime. Two chimes. Three chimes. Then stillness. Three AM. June raised her finger slowly to cover her pursed lips. Their eyes darted around the abandoned parking lot as the pair drifted into the shadows of the strip mall. Looking around, it seemed like they stumbled upon the remains of a looted grocery store. Margo opened her mouth to speak but June, sensing a shift in the air, reached out and covered Margo’s mouth entirely. Someone was ...

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“Paint Something” by Emily R Bellas

Submitted to Contest #78

She wanted to ask why the dipping sauce was a brownish grey color, but she didn’t want to insult her mother-in-law who she had just met for the first time. Maybe it was a cultural thing. She had never eaten authentic Indian food before and take-out from Bengal Tiger hardly counted.  “This is delicious, Mrs. Patel,” Katie spoke with her hand covering her partially full mouth. Truthfully, she didn’t really have an adventurous food palette. She always tried to like Dev’s food from his home country but it just wasn’t her cup of sweet tea, ...

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Indie author living the dream in Brooklyn :)