Raaina Akorede Aranmolate

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2020

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“When Your Lips Can't Form No” by Raaina Akorede Aranmolate

TRIGGER WARNINGS: CHILD ABUSEYour lips just can't form the word no, can they?Even when your brain screams at them to do so. When your tongue tries to push the word out. When your nails dig into your palms, your toes curl, your eyes squeeze shut, and you will, with every ounce of strength in you, your lips to part and let those two letters tumble out. Your lips just won't budge. And, if by some miracle, they do, it's only to allow the godforsaken yes sail smoothly out.Yes. To a roommate's request to be her plus one at a birthday bash. Though ...

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“If It Looks in Your Dream like...” by Raaina Akorede Aranmolate

When you were six, a few days before the great eid, you dreamt. Your mother laid out a dress on the hole-riddled mattress you both shared, spoke some gibberish you didn't hear. Seconds later, you were prancing about an odd world—tree roots were branches; roofs were floors—in the dress.You woke from that dream with the thought, this means I'll get a new dress for Eid this year. It didn't matter that the dress in your dream was one you used to own. And hate. It didn't matter that you, and your mother barely had enough for food. If it looked in...

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Author bio

Hi! Asalaam alaykum! I'm Raaina, twenty-one, final year Mathematics Education student, and an aspiring writer, and editor.