Malaika Shaikh

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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“Theon the gemini” by Malaika Shaikh

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” by Malaika Shaikh

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?" ” by Malaika Shaikh

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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