Helēna Berga

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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3 Stories

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“Glimmer” by Helēna Berga

Submitted to Contest #53

Trigger warning: depictions of suicide It is August and everything is changing. Fireflies and first loves, all must come to an end. Cherries dangle from a tree. Our hands touch as I reach for them, a mindless fumble that ends with our hands intertwined. Her touch feels like home but I do not know what home is. I open my mouth but no words escape. Hold me. ‘’A day in a heatwave is much more ...

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“Unanswered questions” by Helēna Berga

Submitted to Contest #53

Not sure if this qualifies as a story but it's what I came up with! can't believe u really did it. parents think it was an accident. we know it wasnt. xx We found the popsicle near the train tracks, almost melted. It was a fine treat for the ants nearby who had taken the job of not wasting a sickly-sweet drop. For us it meant the end of the world. It meant you were gone. <...

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“Conversations with myself/my mother.” by Helēna Berga

Submitted to Contest #44

Twelve is blue. I love you, my mother says, almost as an afterthought, as she is heading out the door. I have waited 12 years for these words. The savouring feeling comes with a certain kind of bittersweetness, a feeling I had become accustomed to. Begging and scraping for any kind of affection has made me hard. I do not respond. The next years pass in a haze with only glimpses of memories in-between.

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