Joao Pedro

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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“Lottery” by Joao Pedro

Submitted to Contest #103

I stared at the lottery ticket all morning, it had gotten ashy from the dust it gathered during the week, untouched. In the bin sat several scrunched up pieces of paper, each of them containing a few different number combinations, none of which I felt confident enough to use. I wondered why I got it in the first place. At first, I thought it’d be a lucky week, my lucky week, which turned into a lucky Friday with every piece of paper that landed in the trash.It was 8 o’clock. I knew that because the alarm had rung exactly 12 times since I wok...

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“Hope” by Joao Pedro

Submitted to Contest #89

The crimson colour of newborn sunlight accentuated the nine-month lump in Elsie’s belly. Twelve whole minutes, she counted, had passed since her last contraction; enough time for her husband, Caleb, to get into his best three-piece suit. She vowed never to lack appreciation for those candid moments in which nature did its job without causing her excruciating pain, and she would have done so if not for her husband’s stubbornness. “I just don’t know why you can’t take a break.” She said. His eyes barely diverted from his undone necktie. Fr...

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“Bitter-sweet poison” by Joao Pedro

Submitted to Contest #87

March 28th The crowd roared as he seamlessly produced a grey cat from underneath the black cloth that laid on his palm before making it disappear in the same way. Faith had become evermore scarcer over the years and, like the other Aesir, Loki had succumbed to the outskirts of memory, having to perform cheap magic in theatre pubs across London to survive the night. After the show, Loki sat by the bar, his now white flaky hair resting on the sharp wrinkles on his face, and signalled the bartender. “Redbreast. Neat.” “Make it two,” sa...

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Author bio

I love drinking coffee, reading, writing, procrastinating and repeating. Feel free to interact with criticism of any kind, would be much appreciated, just trying to get better slowly, very slowly. Currently obsessed with Neil Gaiman so my stories may or may not reflect it. Also, subtle plug, but I've been working on a novel for the past three years on Wattpad. (https://www.wattpad.com/770815324-until-it%27s-gone-chapter-i). There are edits on plenty of chapters that I haven't posted yet, but feel free to give ANY feedback on what's there already.