Makela S

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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3 Stories

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“A Compendium of Dreams” by Makela S

Submitted to Contest #256

This dream diary belongs to Li Kaili.hey Kaili :3you did amazing at ur dance recitalpls like this gift or ill die T_Thope u have an awesome bday!!—Yingyue “I saw a dream and it made me fearful.” —Daniel 4:5i. the american dream1999. When twelve-year-old Li Kaili stumbled off the plane at JFK, courtesy of EVA Air, clutching with white-knuckled fingers a battered brown suitcase in one hand and her passport and visa in the other, how excited was she to be in America, the fabled land of the free? After sleepless nights of rattling trains an...

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“Fireworks of the Stars” by Makela S

Submitted to Contest #255

2712 CE She wakes to gray and black: metal walls and threadbare pillows and meager quilts. She jolts upright, chest heaving as she tries to remember where she is, when it is. For a moment, all is darkness, until a message flashes across her vision. Please come. She scrambles forward, panic engulfing her as her mind shoots to the only explanation plausible, the room flooding with light at her command. An incessant stream of data overflows the sight of her left eye. Adjacent to the headlines and articles are lengthy essays pertain...

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“La Ballade du Temps” by Makela S

Submitted to Contest #253

Trigger Warnings: Implied sexual content, suicide, physical violence, attempted murder, obsessive/toxic relationship an unknown ageParis, France Immortality, they say, has always wrought more woe than gain. He looks upon the fresh morning, twinkling beyond his window in the lavender-ruffling breeze and the chatter of the buoyant children at the nearby school, and ponders, even now, about the chosen ones. Eternal youth, every ancient tome describes, is what transformed their hearts, stone-cold and unmoving, as they watch eras fly by. Cau...

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