Maruna Rizh'ye

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2021

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“From the Doorstep to the Train” by Maruna Rizh'ye

Submitted to Contest #277

November 20XX, 8:36 p.m.It was a Sunday afternoon when I had sat down to read the book we were assigned for my anthropology class, right after I had come back from Church, where we had done a panahida, a remembrance mass, for those who had passed away during the Holodomor, the famine. Similar words I would see in my assigned readings, much to my surprise. A very curious coincidence. Now, all these words in italics may mean nothing to you, my dear reader, but they meant the world to me. When I began to read the assigned b...

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“Are the Cherry Blossoms Blooming?” by Maruna Rizh'ye

Submitted to Contest #191

A glass box placed in a void of white,It’s owner and prisoner the same.The key sat by their knee,But the jailbird only wished to stay. ————————————————————It was raining almost every day now, now that the snowfall had stopped.Rin preferred it to the biting frost that would come to nip at her nose, and cause her to have a sore throat every morning. Even so, the overcast that greeted the world each day, making it hard to distinct dawn from dusk, did nothing to lift anyone’s spirits.Some days were bet...

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“Jump” by Maruna Rizh'ye

Submitted to Contest #103

Three times. That is the number of times Kira had a dream about the same place. It was a frozen lake, with the ice in chunks, where cold black water seeped through the cracks. A strange, almost purple fog would always hang over the dream’s setting. The first time Kira was there, wilderness surrounded the lake, with seemingly no one around. She was quite young back then and had been running away in the dream. Chased by heaven knows what, she never knew, but there was always an animal-like instinct that kept her running. A dead-end came. Full ...

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