Mia N

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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7 Stories

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“an exercise in no expectations ” by Mia N

Submitted to Contest #217

She’s watching people again. She thinks no ones notices as she does it but she’s not as discrete as she thinks she is. If she were half as pretty, she wouldn’t get away with it. Except she’s absolutely stunning and so she can what she likes.  I asked once what she thinks of when she stares at people the way she does. She seemed caught off guard that I’d noticed at all but then she turned around and explained to me anyway. To her, the diner is a stage and everyone inside is a character in a play.  Tonight, there’s a boy her ey...

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“pavement ” by Mia N

Submitted to Contest #216

Discretely, Michael yawned to one side, raising the back of his hand to his open mouth as he did so. The last time he’d been out so late was at his nephew’s birthday party a handful of months ago. In a regular night, he would already be asleep. Tonight, however, it was nearing eleven p.m. and he was walking under the moonlit sky.  The woman who had agreed to accompany him on a date was Samantha Hearing. She was a lovely woman, a single mother with a daughter who was looking to reenter the romance scene, or so said Michael’s coll...

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“living as leaves” by Mia N

Submitted to Contest #196

As a baby, it had not been as difficult as Arianna had imagined for her daughter Elise to travel. It was usually the case that all Elise needed to live happily was to be steadfast in the knowledge that there would always be a warm pair of arms to pick her up when she was bored, a sturdy hand to hold hers when she was afraid, and the sound of ringing laughter to accompany her she played.  Although it peeved her mother and father, Elise at that age cared not for who cared for her as long as someone did. Nevertheless, this made travelin...

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“the things that escape me in the daylight ” by Mia N

Submitted to Contest #183

“Ay, mamí! You’d think I’d been gone for twenty years. Ey, ey, off, off, off.”  Scrunching her nose over her daughter’s shoulder, Anahí’s mother kept her grip steady on her baby girl. “Niña, who do you think I am? I’m your mother, respect me. I can hug you and hold you whenever I want.” Turning her nose into Anahí’s silky black hair, Anahí’s mother sniffed.  Rolling her eyes, Anahí relented under her mother’s affections. “How’s Horacio?”  “Mm…he’s fine? Tell me about you! What have you been up to? How have you be...

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“there were two of them” by Mia N

Submitted to Contest #174

Juanita had forgotten Alex’s jacket. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. She’d taken it into the restroom with her but had left it hanging over the stall door. Pinching herself, she wondered if they had time to go back and get it but, no, they would miss the bus.  As she realized her mistake, Juanita made sure to keep her face calm and collected. Alex was watching her. These days, he was always watching her. She pretended not to see.  Alas, there was nothing she could do about it right now. Forcing herself to think of something else, she looke...

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“pleasant unpleasant encounters ” by Mia N

Submitted to Contest #164

As he looked up to the thatched ceiling of his prison, Jeremiah pressed a knuckle between his lips and contemplated the life he had lived thus far. He’d been sixteen when he had joined the rebels in their protest against the monarchy. He’d been without family or friends and he was tired of being alone. So, he’d followed Kai into their ranks. Now, it was two years later and everyone was gone.  “And here I am, waiting to be skewered to death,” Jeremiah ominously pondered. “I better be rich in my next life.” Pouting, he tucked an a...

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“it was not just me ” by Mia N

Submitted to Contest #162

“Oh, I’m sorry for all the mess, Jesse.” Alice, the office manager, lamented with guilt-filled brown eyes.  As Jesse surveyed the remnants of this year’s Christmas’s party, he grimaced himself. Working maintenance was usually a more tedious than challenging endeavor and yet…a few times a year, these holiday parties tended to sneak up on his unsuspecting heart to remind him of all that he was missing in his own life.  Not wanting to alarm Alice, Jesse quickly shot her a smile. “Don’t worry about it, love. It’s what I get paid ...

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