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Malaika Shaikh

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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Silent Upon Impact

Submitted to Contest #300

When Vada King was 12 years old, she and her mother wrapped their Toyota Supra around a lamppost. Vada was caught in a particularly awful screaming match with her mother. As Vada aged, the cause of the fight morphed and twisted until she couldn’t remember it in the slightest. This argument caused Vada’s mother to throw her hands up in an action of anger and lose control of the Supra. However, it wasn’t necessarily just this lack of hands on the wheel that caused the car to spin out of control.Vada never admitted this to anyone, but she shove...

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The Witching Hour

Submitted to Contest #297

This thing. This thing materializes from shadow. Its limbs grow and its flesh molds into shape, feeding off of the dark and the shadows. When it’s only 3 hours after midnight, and your eyelids flutter ever so slightly. Never opening wide enough to catch a glimpse of the growing creature in the darkest corner of your bedroom. The minutes drift slowly by. It grows and grows and grows. It’s obsidian arms spiraling all around your room, slithering across the floor and the walls. They hiss against the paint, not loud enough to wake you but loud e...

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Theon the gemini

Submitted to Contest #222

“Again.” Repeated more than 20 times in the past hour, Caelin was sick to her stomach of hearing that word. Theon rapped his wooden staff on the stone floor when she paused to breathe, she’d sprinted so many laps around the room that she’d lost count.“Did I say stop?” He growled. She gasped for air as nausea overtook her stomach. She didn’t even have time to warn Theon before she vomited all over the stone. Theon clicked his tongue and called for a servant to begin cleaning the mess. He approached her and smacked her back with his ...

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Happily Ever After

Jamie Lewis strides into Gino’s Italian Cuisine with a pep in her step the same time as Lana Keith hesitantly enters behind her. Each woman finds their partner almost instantly. Jamie’s eyes meet Scott’s and a smile erupts across her face. Lana scopes the restaurant and finds Wilson, his eyes fixed at the wire basket of bread on the table and his hands folded too professionally. They both move to their tables, on opposite sides of the restaurant, oblivious to one another's and how their paths would oddly link in the night ahead o...

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"Has He Hurt You?"

Submitted to Contest #183

The 90 degree heat of this August day was getting to my head. Sweat rolled down my face in little beads, I wiped it away with the back of my hand. I was in a parking lot of traffic, cars honked, people were yelling from their windows, some woman had even gotten out of her car and was leaning against the driver side door. Clearly the heat wasn’t doing much to the people around me, as a teenager in the car to my right scrolled aimlessly on her phone. An older man in the car to my left flipped through a newspaper, whil...

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