Júlio Miranda

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2024

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“Blind Date” by Júlio Miranda

Submitted to Contest #281

The taxi driver, who had been driving for two and a half blocks at very low speed, turning and craning his head and neck, paying attention to the house numbers, finally signaled to the right and parked next to the curb, in front of a mansion worthy of a Hollywood movie, in the most upscale neighborhood in the city. He disengaged the car and pulled the handbrake. “We’re here?” he turned and asked. “I sure hope so…” the passenger muttered, dumbfounded, his mouth already open before the words had even begun to come out. He didn’t look at the dr...

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“Let's Talk About It Later” by Júlio Miranda

Submitted to Contest #280

“How long have you been sitting there? Didn’t you hear me knock? What, were you going to leave me outside until someone called the cops?”“...”“The forecast is for a storm, you know? Were you going to leave me out there in the rain?”“It’s a fuckin’ apartment building, Daniel, and out there it’s a fuckin’ corridor, you wouldn’t be in the rain.”“Look, so she talks! Thank God your mother gave me a copy of the key.”“Well, she shouldn’t have done that, she had no right...”“Well... At least tell me you remembered to eat something, since from the lo...

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Author bio

Born on October 12, 1996, in the municipality of Ituiutaba, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. An avid reader since childhood, he began writing his own stories when he was still a teenager. One of his short stories published in Brazil, in a collection with other writers from his hometown, was selected to become a film by a local studio in 2024.