Faith Palma

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Persuasion” by Faith Palma

Submitted to Contest #248

“I was warned that you would come,” the old shopkeeper said as he slowly folded the reading glasses he was cleaning and set them in his pocket. “I can’t help you, Hector.”Hector entered into the man’s dim-lit shop and closed the door. Sunlight peaked in from thin windows at the top of the room, barely illuminating the dusty wares. Hector paid them no mind, his gaze fixed on the man before him. “I know what you want,” the shopkeeper continued. “But it wouldn’t help you.”Hector said nothing but stepped closer to the shopkeeper. His heavy ...

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“All That Remains” by Faith Palma

Submitted to Contest #220

I am filled suddenly with the sense of being carried. I imagine it is my father, carrying me to bed after I fell asleep on the couch. I hope when I wake up I am in my bedroom once more, staring at the glow-in-the-dark stars peeling off of my ceiling. I hope I can hear my mother’s twinkling laugh as she opens the door and chides me for sleeping through the day. I hope I will wake up to my sister belting the wrong lyrics to a song she doesn’t know. I know I won’t. I will never wake up again. ——❈—— “Cassid...

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Author bio

Trying to put the worlds in my mind on paper.