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Laura Camacho Frias

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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La Menina

Laura Camacho Frias

Submitted to Contest #242

It was a beautiful autumn day when my world turned upside down. I was about to cross the ocean to my first big business meeting overseas, and I had been preparing every detail of the event for months. Due to our company policy, each site's representatives had to take different flights, so I was alone that morning. The materials to present were available on each of our laptops, and I had secured safety copies on external hard drives. There was no way I would leave any detail out of my control. I arrived early at the airport, giving me four ho...

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Hello mother. Hi dad.

Laura Camacho Frias

Submitted to Contest #241

I grew up with a single mother. On Christmas Eve, when I was one year old, my mum packed a little suitcase, held me in her arms, and we left the house where we lived with my father, never to return. As expected, I don't remember it, but I've listened to that story so many times that I can even feel the snow falling that day whenever I think about it. I don't remember either many of my father's visits when I was a child, the time he tried to gift me a puppy, or the occasion when he tried to take me out of the country and my mother had to call...

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Queen's day

Laura Camacho Frias

Submitted to Contest #240

The wind blew in her face while the heavy transit whispered, "You are late." The girl had promised to arrive home early that day, but things had not gone as planned at school. She was cycling fast. Her legs were hurting, her heart was racing, and she was thinking about the homework she still had to do, the time she had spent talking to her friends, and any possible excuse to give to her father, but she knew there was none. At least, not a credible one. When Queen arrived at the iron gates at the back of the house, she took the keys out of h...

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Glitter

Laura Camacho Frias

Submitted to Contest #239

It was a cold day of winter when I saw it. Glitter started to fall from the sky. Glitter: little, perfect, shiny particles covering the outside world glowed and sparkled, transforming the view into a magnified snow globe. The houses and trees looked pretty and magical, while our lives remained the same, inside, safe from that strange event. It was not Christmas nor any other festivity that neighbors could have used as an excuse to decorate the street. It was just a regular day when something very different happened. It was early in the mor...

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