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Paula Pont

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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Decisions, decisions

Paula Pont

Submitted to Contest #95

Cold sweat rolls down my back as I stare at the two doors in front of me, the hum of my heart ringing in my ears. There is nothing else. Around me there is only blackness, the universe is empty except for my options and me. Two doors. Two options. And me. I’ve been having the same dream over and over and over for years. It’s always the same. It starts with me opening my eyes only to find the world is gone, everything is gone but two immaculate onyx doors, each a copy of the other, standing before me, almost blending in with the rest of the b...

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Is there any other answer?

Paula Pont

Submitted to Contest #67

How do you stop feeling humanity towards someone that’s so clearly nothing more than that, human? How do you stop having this empathy with someone that I’m supposed to see as a means to an end? It’s hard having to strip a person from all human qualities when you’re the same as them.In my life, I’ve met many soulless people who proudly claim to have done some nasty things to a lot of people, but now I know that, if that’s true, they never had to look them in the eye and see their own reflection looking back at them.Admittedly, I had gotten my...

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The Epiphany

Paula Pont

Submitted to Contest #46

It’s a tiny detail that triggers it. Just an image -a modern gossip magazine in the wrinkled hands of an old lady - but that’s more than enough. I felt it, bubbling inside my head like a soda can that’s been agitated and it’s waiting the moment someone opens it to explode everywhere. The Epiphany. That feeling of wonder and emotion creeping in every single cavity of my brain that leaves no room for anything else until it’s just me and her. She’s waking up and I feel her stretch out, looking around, getting used to her new home...

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