Pari Ghodsi

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2023

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“Forward Motion” by Pari Ghodsi

Submitted to Contest #193

My swollen cheeks carry my smile like a sack of fifty-pound potatoes dropping it with relief the second the door latch clicks into place behind him. After three failed cycles of IVF, a pregnancy complicated with placenta previa, and a cesarean delivery in which I was told I was “lucky it went as well as it did.” I knew my grin shouldn’t be such a load. Inside of the body that I no longer recognize as my own there are two...

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“Lilies” by Pari Ghodsi

🏆 Winner of Contest #191

*Trigger Warning: Pregnancy Loss “Do they come with a card?” I solemnly asked the florist, a petite, tan woman with thick blonde hair cascading down her back. The kind of hair that has become popular for women half her age to have threaded and sewn onto the base of their skull. Even though we were in West Hollywood, the pulse of trend and glamour, the three untouched horizontal lines etched onto her foreh...

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“The Good Kind Of Nerves” by Pari Ghodsi

Submitted to Contest #189

It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. My eyes were heavy and I could hardly see my way to the Red parking garage. The one that was in the back of the hospital. The one for guests and residents. As if we as residents, weren’t staff. As if we as residents, weren’t real physicians. Dear God, what did my ca...

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Contest #191

Lilies – read story