Marta Maliszewska

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Gloves” by Marta Maliszewska

Submitted to Contest #213

Cindy had been gifted from youth with a hateful sort of magic. It was unlike the magic of anyone else in the family; in fact, as far as she knew, it was unlike the magic of anyone else in the world, maybe even the universe. Many young girls might have been thrilled to find themselves so unique, but not Cindy. No, Cindy was not thrilled at all. Because with her magic, that hateful magic, came with a horrible necessity. A practice that had to be kept up all day, every day. Something that no one, but no one, should have to do, especially not al...

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“What They Like” by Marta Maliszewska

Submitted to Contest #162

Laurel doesn’t eat anything. This used to terrify me when we first started living together. Her dinners would consist of instant ramen and a single egg. Soft, small bowls of pasta with canned tomato sauce. Frozen ravioli. Peanut butter and jelly. These meals were put on repeat. I watched them, day after day, mildly appalled but still too shy to offer her my own cooking, feeling that any criticism of her diet would be presumptuous, and not wanting to make her uncomfortable in having to refuse anything she didn’t like. I didn’t really know wha...

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“Dan the Tomato Man” by Marta Maliszewska

Submitted to Contest #102

Dan the Tomato Man. That’s what all the kids called him. It was Peggy from down the street, who lost her left front tooth last week, who came up with the name. They had all gotten tomatoes from him at one point or another. In fact, just last week, Alberto from the end of the cul de sac had made a tomato basil quiche out of them, and while playing with the others he swore it was the best thing he’d ever tasted and that it’d made him grow two inches besides. Peggy said that the extra two inches had come from all the hair gel he used, and Lila,...

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