RAFAEL AVILA

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Awake” by RAFAEL AVILA

Submitted to Contest #31

Click, click, tock. Clop, clap, tap.   Every day, the same rhythms. The same steps. The same words, sounds, seconds, minutes and hours. To and from work, shuffle, shuffle, eleven mind-numbing years, bedtime at 9:00 p.m. sharp, morning alarm at exactly 6:00 a.m. Cyclical. Mathematical. Variation? Today Raul Souza had two bananas for breakfast, a bold deviation from his usual single. Scandalous! Raul was not without humor about his plain life, but there was no denying it had dull...

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Rafael Avila is an illustrator, fine artist, and writer. He taught drawing classes for nine years at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and for the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts. He loves drawing, reading and writing comics.