Gem Cassia

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

Stories (6)

6 Stories

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“6:63” by Gem Cassia

As the earth embraces my flesh, I can’t help but recall the moment of your birth. (I’m writing this letter as I lie dead. Of course, this cannot be a physical letter, but rather a metaphysical one. You’ve always had a penchant for the abstract. I only hope you can read my handwriting. Please understand— it is rather difficult to maintain good penmanship when one no longer has a sentient body.)...

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“The Path of Moonlit Feathers” by Gem Cassia

Stories are not always formed in straight lines, but in circles. Picture a conical pendulum. Can you see it? It’s just like any other pendulum, only it hits different points each time it swings. If you connect these points, you’ll end up with something round. Back and forth it travels on its predetermined trajectory, always cutting through the center, always without a finish line in sight. This is how our story moves. We’ll start at whichever point the pendulum decides t...

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“Junebird and Love” by Gem Cassia

Love crept in through the window silent and unannounced, like a mouse tip-toeing its way along the shadows of a dimly lit room. Or at least, that was the effect that she had been aiming for. What happened instead was a clumsy maneuver that involved stumbling over the roughly hewn wooden sill and landing on the floor of the treehouse in a crumpled heap. That was the way she made her entrances— it was the same way she had entered my life and it was the same way she greeted me everyday— stumbling, and messy, and beauti...

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“The Midnight Un-Masquerade” by Gem Cassia

I wake up in somebody else’s shoes. The reins of sleep still encircle my wrists and throat like strands of pearls, but this single ray of knowledge slices through the veil like the glint of a sharpened jewel. I know nothing else, but on this my faith is unshakeable— these are no shoes of mine. Like sheaths of molten ruby cradling the arch of my foot, grasping my ankles with clinging, bloodied f...

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“To Hold You With These Scarlet Hands” by Gem Cassia

When I come to him, he is scattered amidst a garden of crushed glass and wilted metal. His head is twisted to one side, mezmerized by the sanguine floret blooming beneath his cheek. He must have anticipated my arrival; his eyes drift upwards as I approach, completely devoid of surprise. Thorny edges of broken things perforate my knees as I kneel amongst the carnage. I have never seen him before, but he ...

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“Once upon your sky” by Gem Cassia

There are seventeen dreams in the sky. You count the ones within your field of vision, for there is only a limited swath of that cerulean fabric available to your naked eye at a single glance. Seventeen of them; or at least, seventeen of which have discernible shapes. Some of your favorites: The head of a whale, breaching the swell of a cresting wave. A pair of ballet slippers, ...

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Author bio

Aspiring writer, age 20, she/her I self-published my first novel "Impediment" in 2021, available on Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/impediment-gem-blossom/1139824164?ean=9781668510926 Favorite books: * The Little Prince * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy * East of Eden * Night * A Man Called Ove * The Shadow of the Wind Current Project: The Improbability of Birds - a literary fiction novel

Shortlisted 2 stories ⭐️

Contest #146

Junebird and Love – read story

Contest #143

Once upon your sky – read story