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Disclaimer: This story is an unfinished first draft. Unbetaed. I had hoped to do more, but I' ve had a week, haha. So I figured I'd post what I got and finish it later. P.s. I wanted to put "Solarpunk" in categories, but Reedsy doesn't have it. So I'm putting it here. The bell rang with a soft ting-a-ling, and Carla’s head shot up from its resting place on her hand, startled awake from a rath...
Hugo told me once that fall was his favorite time of the year. Told me to hold leaves as delicate as you would a pretty girl’s hand. His teeth would then spread wide across his face. Pallid and flaked with brown. Rows of sweet tooth that hadn’t been cleared of duff. On his days off we’d go hunting for mushrooms in the forest behind our house. “It’s hard to tell which mushrooms are edible,” Hugo would ...
“Hello?” Girasol called into the darkness. All that answered were soft swirls of pearlescent smoke, drifting gently up into more nothingness. It had Girasol aimless and uncertain as she walked tentatively forward. She couldn't remember how she had gotten here, last memories thick with fog. Flares of sand and creaking wood rose up in her mind with each step— she grit her teeth, grounding to a halt and stomping her foot. W...
28. Latina. Poet. Writer. I write for the love of it and any joy it would bring.
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