Lunar Moon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2023

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“My Sleeping Wife” by Lunar Moon

Without anything to tell the time, the days dripped into one another. The spitting sun melted into the horizon, the moon bloomed into a shrieking crescent overhead, day after day, holding our house on the hilltop in worn but not weary hands. In another lifetime, did I have a wife? Did I know the warm, mindless, and endless sensation of someone walking close to my heart? Did I know or even love the inexplicable clicking of someone else’s mind? In this lifetime I have been given the opportunity to know what it might have been like. The w...

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“Pregnancy Craving” by Lunar Moon

Submitted to Contest #206

In the Neolithic period of the Mediterranean, on the north coast of the African continent along the sea, a 19 year old woman named Basha lived. She had one child and was pregnant with the second, although both fathers were gone, one died of infection from a broken leg, and the other never returned from a fishing voyage. She lived in a medium-sized community with about 100 other people. Their main trade was fishing, but t...

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“Aela and the Kola Nut” by Lunar Moon

Submitted to Contest #205

There was no one alive who knew that this broad, harsh savannah was once a fertile river basin. But if Aela did know, he might have cursed the earth for changing its mind about that. In Benin, 1750, Aela needed to grow his yams, and here he was forced to obey the whims of drastic seasons and his place in time, and an awful drought. As he looked over his field of silent mounds of dirt with tuber seeds buried underneath, h...

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“Sam and Aaron” by Lunar Moon

Submitted to Contest #202

It was homecoming. Not for Aaron, though, but for the school he was playing against that late September day, the leaves threatening to go to amber and gold now that all the remaining wisps of summer had finally disappeared from their hands. He scanned the field he would soon run out into, watched the rows of stadium stands filled with fans of his opposition flashing school colors and enthusiastic cheers...

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