Maggie Kapczynski

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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“The Last Birthday” by Maggie Kapczynski

Submitted to Contest #1

My eyes opened as if I were a creaking android waking up from its charging port. I could almost hear the squeaking of the gears in my body. Or perhaps that was the aching of my bones. As my eyes fluttered open I could see my only child, Aria, watching me with a pink box on her lap and a neon print wrapped present by her side. "Mom!" She said happily standing up to see me better. "I told you I wouldn't forget!" She bashfully placed the pink box on my bed. "Go on, open it!" My wrinkled mouth stretched into a weary smile as my shaking hands lif...

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