Ravinder KJ

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2021

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“Stonewall” by Ravinder KJ

Submitted to Contest #80

(Fictional transcript – one woman’s account of her experience of the Stonewall Riots as a child) When people think of Stonewall, they think of riots, of Marsha P. Johnson, of police raiding the Stonewall Inn, of people throwing bricks, of dykes and fags resisting arrest. When I think of Stonewall, I think of my sister. When Danny was little, we all knew she was different; she liked to wear shorts and a baseball cap instead of dresses and lipstick, and she used to skateboard with the boys from our school instead of coming to dance class w...

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“Unwanted Guest” by Ravinder KJ

Submitted to Contest #79

This is it. I’m nervous, I’m excited, I’m terrified, I’m ecstatic… I’m standing at the alter on my wedding day. Mike is smiling down at me (he’s six-foot-four, so he smiles down at everyone), and he looks handsomer than ever in his lush white tux. The vicar is saying something but I can’t hear a word; the blood is rushing through my head and my heart is barely staying inside my chest. If this isn’t over soon, there’ll be blood all over the walls. We paid so much for this place, too – a wedding at Chatsworth House! It would be a shame to le...

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Author bio

19 - female - British - student Mostly a poet, but I'm branching out into fiction and scriptwriting.