Helen Mesghinna

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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“Super Shot” by Helen Mesghinna

The image showed a tiny speck of red and black movement crash into the roundabout. Nadia adjusted her controls on the camera and zoomed in on her subjects. They were six floors below her and moving faster than the camera could pick them out among the grassy roundabout of Sematat Avenue. A red-clad male figure and a black clothed female one had just crashed into the site. Out of all the vigilantes and criminals with strange abilities that had been cropping up in the capital, these two were the most celebrated rivalry. After months of taking s...

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“White and Orange” by Helen Mesghinna

I burst through the foliage of the forest, twigs cracking underneath, making enough noise to quite the birdsong above me. The route through this forest is a shortcut for me. I only have my feet to carry me to and back from my middle-school, unlike the rest of my peers who rode there on their bicycles. The route from my home, through the grain fields, underneath the canopy of the forest and then farther into the center of Asmara, my town, to reach my school, took me about an hour every day. But school was worth it. If instead I’d taken ...

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