Marisa Billions

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Alize” by Marisa Billions

Submitted to Contest #187

It’s been a year to the day. Our last interaction was not a nice one. I screamed at her. I told her I was done. She kissed me goodbye, and she was gone. Not a day goes by that I’m not spending time reenacting our last moments together in my head. Our shouts and angry words reverberate in my head. I will never not be sorry, and the hole in my heart and the empty place in my bed and my life will never be filled.  Every day since then, I see something I never noticed until the day after she was gone.  Paw prints on wet concrete. A...

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“Sing a Song” by Marisa Billions

Submitted to Contest #186

I don’t remember much about my birth mom. She was beautiful. And she could sing. I remember she would sing to me all the time. She would sing while she put the bows and pigtails in my hair. I would sing with her. We would harmonize. Her with her beautiful and powerful voice. Me, with my high pitched kid voice.  I loved her. She was my world. Beautiful. Sweet. Doting. I know she loved me. Unfortunately, she loved heroin more than she loved me.  Imagine, four years old, and your mother is on the kitchen floor. You don’t unders...

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Author bio

I'm a writer, mom, teacher, and wife. Not always in the same order every day. I have four sapphic fiction novels published - working on a fifth. My. second novel, Like Sapphire Blue is the 2023 Gold Medal winner for Reader Views Best Fiction, and BookFest first place winner as well. My fourth novel, Till Death Do You Part won silver for Best LGBTQI Novel, and honorable mention for Best Thriller/Mystery Novel for Reader Views 2024 contest cycle. You can follow on Substack, Instagram and Facebook @MarisaBillions.