Isabella Serene

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Haunted House” by Isabella Serene

Submitted to Contest #52

Trigger warning: domestic abuse   There’s an empty Heineken bottle on its side at the bottom of the driveway. It doesn’t bode well for the house; Noah would’ve known that even back when he was just an intern at the realtor’s office. The green glass stains the white pebbles around it in the sunlight. At the sight of it, Noah’s gag reflex pulls his memories out of his stomach, and he has to swallow to keep them back.    He kicks the bottle over the pebbles until they get to the trashcan. He doesn’t want to pick it up, but he can...

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“Curse Word Poetry” by Isabella Serene

Submitted to Contest #47

The bus is about the last place you want to be right now, but Jane was your ride, and she’s probably halfway back to Boulder. You look out the window and think about how wrong the weather forecast was. It’s not that Mandy -- as in “This is Mandy from Channel 4 news” -- called for sun, and now it’s raining instead. As you gaze up at the sky, squinting to protect your eyes, you struggle to find so much as a single wisp of cloud in the vast blue. It’s the meaning she put behind the forecast that bothers you. Standing in her pencil skirt and jac...

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Young writer looking to make an impact on the world