Meli Mangos

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

Stories (21)

21 Stories

403 karma pts

?

“Spire” by Meli Mangos

Six years since she had stood in this spot. In the middle of the sidewalk in front of the stairs with the rusty hand railing. The same discolored steps poorly shoveled of snow. The stop sign on the corner of the street had been upgraded to a stop light that shone in the night. The pear tree sapling was now circled with chicken wire and stood a few feet higher. Icicles hung from the little branches. She stood looking up at the spire, same as she had that day, with small flakes of snow spiraling...

Read story

“Heart Trapped in Ice ” by Meli Mangos

Elizabeth slammed her palm repeatedly into her Jeep's horn. "Come on! It's just a little snow." She groaned and put her elbow to the window and rested her head against her hand. "Well, it is a blizzard, Lizzy." Kate said from the passenger seat. They were trying to get on the local highway but traffic on the ramp was stopped. Outside, snow was coming down in sheets. Some said the flakes were as big as baseballs, and they covered the roads quicker than the plows could make a second pass. There was a red ...

Read story

“Happy New Trespassing ” by Meli Mangos

Munir climbed through the broken first floor window and dropped to the dingy tiled floor. Glass and leaves creaked under her light feet. She checked her phone. December 31, 2019. 11:13pm. Perfect. She silenced her phone and put it in her black drawstring backpack and took out her flashlight instead. It shone off the brick walls of th...

Read story

“Lone Ranger ” by Meli Mangos

“Bye, love you, thanks for helping!” Carla shut the door shut behind her parents and brother as they left her new apartment, cutting her dad’s goodbye off. Carla turned to face the mountain of boxes she forbade her mom to help unpack. Her mattress leaned against the far wall of the studio apartment next to the purple dresser she took from her childhood bedroom.

Read story

“Walls Keep Those Out ” by Meli Mangos

In the meadow outside the walls of Almeria, where purple Lanterns flower and stags graze in the early morning, little Henry was running in front of Elizabeth through the tall grass. Her skirts swished around her legs as she huffed to keep up. She had beat him up the hill, but when it plateaued he quickly overtook her. “Come on, Liza! Last to the tree line has to go into the woods!” His ha...

Read story

“Marjorie” by Meli Mangos

Marjorie sat at the round table in front of the window in the kitchen of her small, quiet house at the end of Greenfield Street. She sat with her hands in her lap and back straight despite the hunch she developed with age. Her kitchen counters were cluttered with newspaper ads and credit card offer letters. The off-white fridge whirred in the silence of the stillness while the handle to the icebox hung slightly off kilter. Lightning flashed over a hill in the distance, tho...

Read story

Author bio

I'm a college graduate in Zoology, but used to double major in Creative Writing before transferring schools. I've always loved writing and creating stories and love to hear feedback on how to improve my stories and my writing style!