Maxwell Pacilio

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2025

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Letters from a Neighbor” by Maxwell Pacilio

Submitted to Contest #294

April 15, 2001Room 211,Hi. I am your downstairs neighbor in 111. I’m aware that you just moved in a couple weeks ago so welcome to the building. I know you like to have people over, and it’s none of my business what y’all get up to, but could you try and not stomp around so much after midnight? Please? My side job at the local Amazon warehouse just put me on first shift, so I’d like a full night’s sleep before starting. Sincerely,Room 111 April 16, 2001Dear Neighbor 111,Hello to you too. I wish you felt confident enough to tell this to me in...

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“A Conversation with a Unicorn” by Maxwell Pacilio

Submitted to Contest #293

       Click-click-clank, click-click-clank, click-click-clank. The morning train clambers along its old rusted metal railings. Its passengers idly stare at their phones, newspapers, magazines, books or whatever else they do to pass the time. It’s a cold day in upstate New York right in the middle of February so all the passengers are dressed in their stereotypical black and brown winter attire. Except for one passenger. Her name is Suzy and she is wearing an oversized bright neon pink Hawaiian shirt with ...

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“The Tiny Silver Cricket” by Maxwell Pacilio

Submitted to Contest #292

       Ticka-ticka-tok, ticka-ticka-tok, ticka-ticka-tok, Clang!            A tiny wind-up toy dog made of gears and scrap metal clumsily struts down a floor littered with other gears, metal wires and scraps. It falls down on the ground when it runs out of wind-up power. “Do it again Papa! Do it again!” A little girl with cute brown bubble braids and caramel skin shouts at her loving grandfather as she gazes at the tiny scrap metal dog scamper across t...

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Author bio

Hello! I am a teacher by day and now a writer by night. I've been writing stories in notebooks, loose leaf paper, and now my work laptop ever since I could form sentences. It is my passion and belief that stories help us understand each other on a much deeper level, and I look forward to any readers to learn and understand me through my stories.