Lisa Jawalekar

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019

Stories (3)

3 Stories

67 karma pts

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“He Saw the Sun” by Lisa Jawalekar

Submitted to Contest #58

The maze itself was dark and perpetually dusty. The air was dirty from the smoke billowing from the furnace in the corner; it was thick enough to choke on. Their chamber, hidden away in some never-seen corner of the maze, was small and derelict. Icarus called it home, and he hated home. High above his head, at least a hundred feet, he could see the sky, dull and grey, obscured by the smoke that just wouldn’t leave. He spent day after day looking upwards at the sky, trying to find the birds that were too far away for him to ever really see; h...

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“Autumn and Winter” by Lisa Jawalekar

Submitted to Contest #42

Ever since the dawn of her memories, Persephone had been counting the long days until she could go back to her home. It never seemed like enough when she was underground, as snow and wind raged above; when she was warm in Hades’ arms. Her mother, Demeter, openly disapproved of Hades, and so her months with always felt stolen, never enough. Still, Persephone had long since accepted her mother’s hatred for her husband, that was as undying as all of them in Olympus. Persephone could feel the days getting shorter, along with her mother’s te...

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“Clocks” by Lisa Jawalekar

Submitted to Contest #19

July 4, 2004“Commercial space for sale. 1000 square feet, includes workroom and back bar. For more information, please contact us at 89 ESTATE.” Martha Founder cocked her head at the sign. The dimensions were a little smaller than she’d been hoping for when she’d made the long way from her countryside home to the middle of the city at the whim of a friend. Katy had said it would be bigger, but Martha couldn’t argue that the plot was in a prime location, smack bang in the middle of the busiest part of town, and it had been their dream to...

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