Maia Tamlin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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“Uncollided” by Maia Tamlin

Submitted to Contest #39

You are flung through space at 400 metres per second while being constantly crashing with 600 newtons of force into a mass much bigger than you will ever begin to fathom, while slowly getting closer to a body so warm it will melt the skin off your bones. And then melt your bones too. Constantly spinning, rotating, dizzying. Yet it seems the person next to you notice none of this. Instead, they point their finger towards the night sky as if their arm is made of nothing, but air and they tell you to look at the moon, how pretty and full it is....

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“Crossroads Under the Oak” by Maia Tamlin

Submitted to Contest #9

As he took another drag of the cigarette comfortably sitting between his strong fingers his eyes seemed to glaze over. The moment the hot flame had kissed the tip of his cigarette he had made sure to move a meter away from me, making sure the smoke and its foul smell would not reach my nose. Of course, at this point, I didn’t care. I’d gotten used to the scent it was all around him. His chequered shirt I had borrowed that one time, his entire room, but worst was his bag. It reeked more than I was comfortable with still. He brought it everywh...

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