Ilana Goldbaum

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

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“Wishing you love, luck and a happy life” by Ilana Goldbaum

Submitted to Contest #164

I was raised in a house that is now a cage of energy that composes memories. I left the world exactly a decade ago, and until now, I didn't have the courage to return to my hometown. However, today is a special day, besides the fact that's my death's anniversary, it is also my wife's birthday. Hathor - her parents named her like that after the Egyptian goddess of happiness, maternity and love, curiously, she was one of several goddesses who were believed to help deceased souls in the afterlife- was the one and only love of my life, that may ...

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“You owe me a dance. ” by Ilana Goldbaum

Trigger warning: Eating disorders, self-harm, death, holocaust mention.Also, English it's not my first language“Dear love…Today it's been a year since our gazes touched for the very first time, I assume you haven't forgotten about it. As it's our special day, I'm here to unburden my heart and narrate stuff you already know mixed in with the soft bomb that is my deepest darkest secrets. I have always thought I was a broken soul, with a ripped-apart heart and a fragmented mind. You could think it's an excruciatingly theatrical comment, bu...

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Life is too beautiful to not write down what your soul captures of it