Melissa Maize

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2021

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Finding Orlando” by Melissa Maize

Submitted to Contest #211

At some point in Patti’s life, her eyebrows disappeared. She used to have them, there was photographic evidence. They were perfectly ordinary, nothing like the thick, robust tufts of hair that rested above Richard’s eyes. Her husband seemed to be acquiring more body hair as he aged. It now appeared in his nostrils and ears, although none of this seemed to faze him. Patti felt slightly embarrassed each morning, penciling in her eyebrows like lines in a children’s drawing. She knew she should be thankful, that things could be much worse, but...

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“Heartbreak Tastes Like Buttercream” by Melissa Maize

Submitted to Contest #133

Kate had spent the last half hour on WebMD trying to find a medical link between her loneliness and her sugar cravings. When she finally gave up, she was still sad and also fairly certain she had a rare form of tongue cancer. She decided to leave work early. It might convince her co-workers she was trying to rush home to someone special on Valentine’s Day, instead of a day-old Domino’s pizza. Outside, the weather was dark and miserable, and she felt like she was walking through an Avril Lavigne music video. Even though she awkwardly jog-...

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“Do Not Disturb” by Melissa Maize

Submitted to Contest #121

My mother had always said I lacked ambition. It sounds cruel, but it’s true. That drive, that fire that pushes people is more of an absent-minded flicker in me. I had been stubbornly average in high school, teetering on mediocre, before half-heartedly enrolling in some community college classes after I graduated. None of them stuck, which is how I ended up cleaning strangers’ messes in the Pinewood Hotel. People act differently in hotels. It’s their impermanence, you stay a couple of nights, leave, and you think it grants you anonymity. Th...

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