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Liya Mariyam

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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A mistake that was never made.

Liya Mariyam

Submitted to Contest #70

It was a terrible cold morning , Huron Anderson was holed up in the small corner of an icky cell. He couldn't sleep all night , although given the condition i suspect nobody could. Just 9 hours ago he was comfortable in his apartment watching the re-run of Seinfeld eating hot pizza.It wasn't the greatest luxury but it was more than enough for Huron. Just as he was going to sleep , the door banged loudly. It all happened in a spur of a moment , but when Huron opened the door , two police men dressed in uniforms grabbed and cuffed him , sa...

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Going through today

Liya Mariyam

Submitted to Contest #58

i wept in the cold , strange aura of the restroom . i was the only one in . i sobbed and sobbed , i felt lonely and in need of a hug and someone telling me it's going to be okay even though i know it's not . i calmed myself down a bit and reluctantly left the bathroom stall and went towards the sink . i splashed water to my face and looked at myself in the mirror which reflected a pale woman with bloodshot eyes and water dripping down her chin , her hair was a mess her clothes were a mess , she looked like a mess more tears dripped down alon...

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What did i do ?

Liya Mariyam

Submitted to Contest #52

The birds were chirping , people were talking the supermarket was filled with lots and lots of people,i made my way through a crowd of strangers to the nearest cashier. As i paid and hurried outside towards my car , two burly men in gray grab me by the arm and handcuff me as if it was a normal thing to do they grabbed my shopping bag out of my hands , so i say ,"if you want my groceries you can take them." the men just stare at me and i just stare at them for a moment and suddenly grasp the situation , i yell at them in the deserted parkin...

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Promises

Liya Mariyam

Submitted to Contest #51

It was still there everything has changed but this.... Mara had been back in the city for two days now and she noticed how much had changed , shops had turned into malls and malls had turned into bigger malls, parks had been destroyed and the forest had been cut , places where once stood her dear memories now were changed into big complexes and what-not , there wasn't a single place of comfort , the town had transformed into a city and there were people everywhere, the sound of birds chirping peacefully had transformed to the loud honking ...

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a lonely journey

Liya Mariyam

Submitted to Contest #48

pow!pow! batman punches the joker in the face . alas it's only to see that it's a dummy of the joker while the real joker had quietly escaped. to be continued. Emily closed the book,added it to the growing pile of story books near her bed and sighed . she so desperately wanted to know what had happened next.but she had spent the week's allowance carelessly and did not have a single penny left. desperate times called for desperate measures so she hurried to her closet and pulled the small drawer attached to it she pulled a pale blue sock ou...

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uh..weird

Liya Mariyam

Submitted to Contest #47

it's a quite and a calm Sunday morning . nothing out of the blue just a lazy Sunday . nobody's in a hurry to reach to places everyone are either sleeping or lazily sitting in comfortable chair reading the latest news while sipping hot and homely fresh coffee. i was no different and doing just the same . after waking up at a reasonable hour ,i make fresh warm coffee and settle down for a breakfast of toast and eggs all the while brooding over an interesting novel. after few minutes i clean the dishes grab my phone and the book and head upstai...

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IT'S NOT POSSIBLE

Liya Mariyam

Submitted to Contest #47

It was another lazy Monday. Nothing unusual, there were no birds singing just delicious smells of toast and eggs wafting through the windows. every other person here might at least have one happy moment today but me i'll probably struggle through the office day with a load of other strangers who i have never made an effort to get to know and then i'll come home and watch movies alone while having pizza for dinner well pizza now that's a happy thought . i get up unwillingly from the peaceful comfort of my bed. I stumble to the bathroom to fre...

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