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Grace Padua

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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UNINVITED

Grace Padua

Springtime has come. The winter snow has stopped to fall but the cold winds and changing weather still exists from cloudy and rainy days to half day sunshine to April showers occuring in the afternoon. . People doesn;t know what to wear whether the winter coat or the spring coat. Trees are beginning to sprout their spring buds and the ground is becoming green. Soon the spring flowers, flowering shrubs and trees bloom. There is a feeling of refreshed mind and physically there is a renewed energy to anticipate the weather of springtime and ...

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THIS WAY

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It is time to prepare breakfast for her children Kilit and Roy. Neneng wakes them up to get ready for school while cooking. She makes sure to have delicious and nutritious meals to be growing healthy and strong. Breakfast meal is composed of an egg grain cereal with powdered whole milk. She avoids liquid milk hearing that it causes mucus build-up that may cause cold or urinary tract infections. Green vegetables are cooked and mix with chopped bacon to make them tasty like spinach and okra. It is best for children to get used to these ki...

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UNLOCK HIM

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"Please listen to me", Estong holds his wife's hand. "It's my fault. I didn't mean it." "What more can you explain? It's all done. We're finished." Insiang means their livelihood is gone. She learned Estong is suspected to have embezzled money from the company he have worked for more than twenty years. How can they accused him if his excellent performance showed the number of years doing the record of finances and financial data of the company? Can it be that someone in his team wanted his position and destroyed his reputation? That...

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THE OPPOSITE

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Don't you know that male and female are opposite sexes but they totally attract each other? Why? They are created that way. There is an encounter that happened in the Garden of Eden when God created the first human beings to inhabit the whole Earth with all living things completed in seven days. God has created a man and a woman to rule the Earth instead of him. Out of a handful of clay a male has been created. He called him Adam and God breathe into his nostril to become a living soul. He is totally complete being able to run around in...

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INDESCRIBABLE

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Necie wakes up when the sunrays peeped through the window glasses of her bedroom piercing the white colored curtains. She must hurry to get ready for work at the library. She opens her cabinet to choose her working clothes. She picks a pastel color to match her newly bought cream colored bag. Hanging them on her clothes stand she rushes to the bathroom. After a short shower she goes back to her bedroom. Brushing up her short hair and puffing up her face must not take too much time thinking not to miss her bus at the station. Necie is d...

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UNKNOWN WORLD

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Erotek who is 20 years old used to go up to the mountain when he was finish working at his father's workshop helping him to chop firewood for sale. That afternoon it was getting late to go down from the mountain and his thought where to spend the night bothered him. He always go home but this time he didn't noticed the sky became dark that means the path going home can be dangerous for him for he will be expose to elements like wild animals and the danger of falling on a steep slope of the mountain. He didn't hear of any place that he co...

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SILENT SUFFERER

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"Please take good care of Lising,{" These were the words of Benito to his wife Insiang. Lising is their youngest daughter who was just ten years old. Fighting his lung disease for several years Benito was afraid he may not see her anymore until the end of the year, Two of their children Bentot and Ising had finished their college degrees and landed with lucrative jobs but they got married right away, Boying a Civil Engineering student will graduate this semester. Why does Benito seemed to be worried if he will not survive his lung dis...

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BUBBLES

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It's early morning. The sun rays is peeping through the glass window shutters at her kitchen. Sitting at her dining table waiting for her tea kettle to whistle Berta blinking her eyes at the thought of being alone. Something popped up in her mind about the recent events that made her feel isolated. It seemed that she is holding some sad feelings. Blinking her eyes was to stopped her tears to fall. Why does she feel this way? Berta had been left by her parents when they met an accident driving through a rainy day under the dark sky. Why...

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SENTENCED

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Julita wanted to ran away after she heard the discussion of her parents with Marion's parents that they are going to marry when she knows Marion was not serious to marry her. She wondered why they came to their house without informing her. Her parents didn't discussed anything about the visit of Marion's parents. She was worried what will happen when Marion had no stable job while she had only a year working as an assistant at the Drug Store. That's where she met Marion when he went to buy the prescription for her mother who had heart ...

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FALLEN

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Emily walked slowly and passed by the rows of headstone to find her loved one leaving a hole in her heart that hadn't heal by time space and emotions. As soon as she laid the flowers below the headstone she asked herself if she had love Inigo at all. Why? How long had she asked to herself how she met him. She was wondering if she had fallen for him or not at all because in her mind there must be words of endearment and the natural process of courtship but Emily didn't remember at all if there was such thing that happened or a decision w...

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EMPTY HEART

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Odessa felt the emptiness of her beautiful house adorned with beautiful furniture expensive curtains and most of all what makes more feeling so sad and empty inside and even her thoughts was going blank. To her the past exhausted her physically when he lost her beloved passing through obstacles abandonement and left alone to face the reality of a dreaded disease and here she is by herself with no one to hold on to, no one to cry on. As if the world has put her in isolation to ponder and put all the guilt to herself and make her suffer too. ...

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THE CREATION

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There was a beginning when the world came into existence and that started in the book of life which is the bible when God created Heaven and the Earth, Then He created light and divided it from darkness to be day and night and his work to fill the Earth seven days of living things plants and animals. The mountains were filled with trees and the waters filled with fishes and the ground was filled with plants and animals. Then God thought of creating a man from a handful of clay from the ground that could think and use his mind. Physically Go...

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THE ENCOUNTER

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Miling was a receptionist at Morning Star Hotel guiding guests when they arrive checking their reservation and calling the bell boy to come and help the guest bring the baggage cart and escort the guest to his room. Carding was coming for business and leisure trip visiting his family in the Philippines who is checking in at the reception and met Miling when he handed his card and they catch each others eyes showing a strange sparkle hooking up their glance and a smile light up both of their faces. ("Magandang umaga po)" "Good mornin...

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SANTELMO

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In a small village far far away people are preparing for the coming Christmas Season. Children are the most excited thinking of the presents they would receive from their godmother or godfather. Who is a godmother or godfather? During baptism a sponsor is needed to witness the ceremony so it becomes official as a member of that church and that church consider them as guardian to look after the child when the parents are not capable to look after their godchild. But there is a difference of considering to be baptized in Christian churches. ...

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MONETTE

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Monette is infront of her dressing table. How come my new curling iron is not here? Carmina, Carmina , she called her Executive Housekeeper. Rushing steps approaching. Yes, Madam. what can I do for you? Look I cannot find my new curling iron. I'll be late for work. Carmina opened the drawers but couldn't find it. She called their housecleaner. Bonny come here. Bonnie rush to Monette's room. Did you keep the curling iron of Madam Monette? No, I have'nt seen it. The curling iron cannot be found. Bonnie called their dog Rusty. Rusty was...

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