Janine Bejarano

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2020

Stories (3)

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“One Last Chance” by Janine Bejarano

Submitted to Contest #39

At twenty, everybody is supposed to get their mark. The mark that matches them with their soulmate. When I woke up on my twentieth birthday, my pale wrist had nothing. I couldn’t say I was surprised. After all, I was the last person on Earth. It wasn’t the pandemic that had wiped out half of our population, the government took it too far. After the President and Congress were deposed and beheaded by the One World Government officials, things worked differently. Before, we were allowed to see follow social distancing and quarantine on o...

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“The Last Shoebox” by Janine Bejarano

Submitted to Contest #38

It was nine in the morning on a Wednesday, and Theo had about lost his mind. He felt like he was losing his grip on reality, as he had been in quarantine for four whole weeks. The rise of the global pandemic was of serious business to Theo, and he didn’t waste time in deciding to self-isolate. He already had a slew of canned goods and frozen foods, so he didn’t need to run out to the stores where the shelves were bare. He already worked from home most of the week, so his boss didn’t care that he didn’t come into the office. All Theo had to d...

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“The Light” by Janine Bejarano

Submitted to Contest #37

It was midnight, and Kelsey was coming home late from a party. She knew her parents were going to be disgusted when they saw her the next morning, she just wondered why they hadn’t called her sooner. Her parents, Don and Gertie Shimer, were devout Baptists and didn’t approve of Kelsey’s rebellious behavior. It wasn’t that Kelsey rebelled because she hated her parents or their religious values, she just rebelled because she thought it was fun to see her parents all riled up. It was also in part because of her brother. While Kelsey’s parents w...

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