Noa Garcia

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2023

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3 Stories

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ā€œSubstances, Cigarettesā€ by Noa Garcia

Submitted to Contest #228

[TW: abuse, substance abuse, mental health]Stella was a careless dancer.The girls in 517 all described her as this because when she danced, which was often, she would close her eyes and move around the apartment with a broom or a hairbrush or a bottle of wine and forget that they had far less space in their home than that in a dance studio. The victims of Stella's dancing included Malia's desk lamp, three of Andi's potted plants, and (although only once) a TV remote that went flying out of the fifth story window.Stella had kissed Amber for t...

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ā€œAfter Mother Diedā€ by Noa Garcia

[TW: Loss of a parent, mental health] ā€œIā€™m not homophobic, you know,ā€ was the first thing Sanvi said to me after Mother died. She was braiding, unbraiding, rebraiding, unbraiding the fuzzy strings of her ripped jeans while she sat across from me. Her eyes were a weird, wide type of glazed-over, feet tapping up and down on the hardwood (Mother had the floors redone years ago, I never quite got used to them not being carpeted anymore). I could see the outlines of her toes through her worn socks, but no shoes. The shoes she did wear were ne...

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ā€œBonesā€ by Noa Garcia

ā­ļø Shortlisted for Contest #225

The newborn skull is made up of 5 bones.By adulthood, it is 22, the face 14.If I were to build a human, I would begin with the skull (occipital, parietals, ethmoidal, etc. etc.). I would build down the spine in individual pieces. I would create a nasal cavity wide and straight enough to breathe through, a cranium large enough to house the brain.But, sitting in front of a linoleum block which is sitting on a chalkboard desk which is sitting on Maine soil on the planet Earth, I am acutely aware that I can not begin from the inside-out of the h...

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I lost somebody and now it's the only thing I can talk about. (I'll be inactive for a bit because I'm currently working on a longer piece but I'll be back!) Currently reading: A Little Life

Shortlisted 1 story ā­ļø

Contest #225
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