Gustavo Reyes

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2022

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“Bon Voyage” by Gustavo Reyes

Bon voyage. She actually said that... the nerve. I don't know what's wrong with "safe travels", or “Have a nice flight”, “Godspeed” even. I guess she wanted to add some kind of ornament to her words. Afterall, for English speakers, the fancy language is French, of course. But she’s not a native English speaker, neither am I. She’s Brazilian, I’m Mexican, and even though we both speak each other’s language fluently, every time we talked about important stuff we switched to English (lingua franca and whatnot).  We both valued language,...

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“Resolutions and Social Networks” by Gustavo Reyes

Submitted to Contest #144

It was April already, and his New year’s resolutions were nowhere near to be completed: meet somebody new, exercise more, try something that scares you. Scratch that first one, won’t you? Meet somebody new? Say hi to the guy who sells coffee by the park, say “nice to meet you”, and there you go. What a joke. No: “Make more friends” is better, more solid. More challenging.  Sitting in front of his computer, working from home since the covid-19 pandemic started, staring at his note taking app that holded his recently updated “New year'...

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Author bio

Mexican UX and Narrative Designer. I like hiking, traveling, and sketching.