Kendra Dantes

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2020

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3 Stories

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“Rotting House” by Kendra Dantes

Submitted to Contest #64

I’ve decided that only one thing in life is true: parents don’t know anything about kids and kids really shouldn’t try to understand parents. In all my fifteen years of living, I’ve realized that it isn’t a wise choice to pry into adult affairs; rather, when you hear your dad say things like “we can’t afford the funeral that my sister wanted” or when you hear your mom bite back “well she’s dead, so it shouldn’t matter anyway”, you should probably stick your nose back where it was before you tried to overhear an important conversation. O...

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“Like Candy Wrapper Airplanes” by Kendra Dantes

Submitted to Contest #29

I think that falling in love is like flying straight for the ground before miraculously being picked back up again. And then you’re floating up. Rising up to the sky, through the clouds, reaching to the sun before you realize it’s too hot to touch. But maybe love is like that, too. So hot it lights your heart on fire, so cold it freezes your fingertips and turns them blue. So ecstatic and so poetic that you can’t focus on anything beside it. All this, of course, coming from...

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“Fear the Siren” by Kendra Dantes

Submitted to Contest #27

Fear the Siren By Kendra Dantes There was something so pleasant about a human’s scream. The way their bodies reacted with an instinct so deep that they lost control. The way their eyes widened at the sight of the siren with claws for nails. The siren with teeth like needles who was more beautiful than the devil. That dark power that was so incredibly irresistible that people died at the sight of her. Ivy frowned. It was so utterly inconvenient when the humans died before they c...

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