Maha NC

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“All in the Name” by Maha NC

Submitted to Contest #277

Aespera.That was my name. I held on to it, with numbing fingers, as my bones were scattered to the seas. My hair and my teeth spelt the name in their hollow shafts, as I was flung from the highest cliff of the Golden City.When the cathedral bells tolled, my name crashed to pieces against rocks and waves. Only to reawaken, reinvent another violent end in the sea foam.Once, I had beautiful lives. They were not tedious, nor terrible; for after all, they were mine. A woodcutter father, who was tricked by a goddess into hating his life, his choic...

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“Train station” by Maha NC

Submitted to Contest #79

The trains clattered and rattled on rails that had weathered too many rains, seen too many winters. Jeya wrapped her shawl more securely around herself, squinting in the early morning light to make out the time on the station clock. Five to six in the morning. The sun was begrudgingly making its way up from the horizon. Soon its rays would spear the sky like a million soldiers streaking onto a battlefield, and the memory of the night would be lost to the bustle and braying of a busy day.But that moment was yet to come, and the day was still ...

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