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Ibrahim Maryam

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

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IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME

Submitted to Contest #103

LINES IN A LEAF...Nobody ever warned me about pictures, so for many years now, I have been very fond of them and thought them to be trustworthy. I'd often hide myself away, searching for lost time in old smiles in old pictures. I'd set the pictures and place my mirrors facing one another so I could see from every angle as I tried to copy a pose or another from years back and maybe recollect what it might have felt like to be me back then. Many, many mes sprawled on the floor. Many, many smiles unaccounted for. Many, many faceless beings...

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LEGACIES

Submitted to Contest #100

"Does it have to be on a table?". Manic laughter. "Be.. because we do not dine on a table in my home". More hysteric laughter. I don't quite understand what might sound funny to them but I do love the laughter. It is better than the silence and the staring as if I just fell from the skies. Everyday I come into the class, right from the hallway, I can feel their silent stares burning through my skin, the strange inquisitive look they give me every morning till my skin melts and stick s to my chair so I can't get up,not when they are arou...

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MOST NIGHTS

Submitted to Contest #99

MOST NIGHTS LISTEN Listen. That is how I spend my nights, I listen. I lay in my bed, the empty side of my bed, still, almost lifeless as I listen to the silent darkness engulf the night and I listen to the silence, to the crying toddlers loosely st...

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