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Nikolas Cabezas

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2024

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The Stowaway

Nikolas Cabezas

Submitted to Contest #315

This is as good a place as any, thought the Hunter. He had come to a forest of jagged rock formations after tracking his quarry on Onachus for three days, and having held off sleep for the last two. Now that he had passed another midnight hour, however, he needed a night’s rest before following the beast’s tracks into the labyrinth. It would be rough, but he couldn’t abandon his sole reason for being in this barren hellscape. It was the only known place to hunt the Beowulf.The Tarasquean Lupine Chimaera was indigenous to this solitary moon. ...

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The Follower

Nikolas Cabezas

Submitted to Contest #275

I miss my family. It’s been three months since I started this job, one since the car broke down, and most likely another until we can afford to fix it. With how the transit system is, walking the long way there and back makes more sense. Unfortunately, this means I usually leave home just before my boys go to school and return shortly before they go to bed. By then my wife and I are so exhausted that we do the same soon after. Still, it’s more exercise and I keep telling myself it will only be another month. Two at most. Thankfully, today ha...

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I Stayed with an Old Woman in the Mountains

Nikolas Cabezas

Submitted to Contest #262

I’ve had the same friends since high school, but as the years passed, it became more difficult to see them often. We used to live within ten minutes of each other; a nostalgic memory now that everyone had moved to various points around the country. To stay in each other’s lives, we decided to commit to meeting up somewhere each summer. I’ve never liked flying, but after last year, it has become a much more preferable option. The plan was to stay at a cabin in Maine, and instead of flying, I elected to take the two-day drive. Luckily, a famil...

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