Melina Gardiner

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

Stories (3)

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“Forget Me Not” by Melina Gardiner

Submitted to Contest #86

The only thing he had to complain about, he supposed, was that the filtering morning sun didn’t land perfectly on his corner of the world, his dainty flower shop. The rays looked so holy descending to Earth, and it crushed a piece of his heart every time they settled shy of the rows of plants. A hulking, slightly overgrown Norfolk pine was stationed in the corner of the store, and Raul could see its symmetrical, spiky green limbs dipping over magenta petunias at its base. He sighed, fed up as always with this particular inhabitant. It...

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“Something Deeply Wrong in Him (in Sound and Color)” by Melina Gardiner

Submitted to Contest #70

Shirley considered the crumpled form at the bottom of the stairs, the streak of red decorating the linoleum floor next to it, then Winston’s frozen pose at the top of the stairs. She sighed, eyebrows crinkling. “I suppose you have an explanation for this?” Her tone was the color neon green, acrid and sarcastic and in your face. Immediately, his hands whipped back to his sides, and he swallowed against the wall of flowery perfume choking the space between them. “He...Uh…” A jumble of words chugged along his brain ma...

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“Benny, Jenny, and Alma in the Dirt” by Melina Gardiner

Submitted to Contest #68

“It was me. I took your food, Alma.” Large, round green eyes stared as she fiddled with the can’s pull tab behind her back. The feline’s mouth pulled back, then a silent yawn fell out. The sharpness of the tab pinched the stiff skin of her finger, so she adjusted her grip. “Whattaya gonna do about it?” she drawled. Alma blinked, unhappy to say the least. She occasionally flicked her gaze to the shadows of the kitchen cabinets. The early afternoon light shifted them incrementally across garish mint green walls....

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