Ruth Fernandes

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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“Journey to finding peace” by Ruth Fernandes

Submitted to Contest #105

The sun is shining brightly outside my car window as I wait at a traffic stop. The sky is a clear blue, the weather a perfect warm; an apt temperature for summer plans; family outings — beach, BBQ, picnic, and the likes. For us, in the car, however, it is quite the opposite. The air in the car is sullen and quiet. I try to make the occasional conversation with my Mum on the back seat, but her replies are in monosyllables. My wife Jess; beside me on the passenger seat, sits silently, mostly in thought, making an occasional comment or a r...

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“The Eternal Promise” by Ruth Fernandes

Submitted to Contest #103

The strong winds that had started the evening before, continued on right through the lonely night on Hartford Lane. The calm of the next morning brought with it unhappy frowns on the faces of its inhabitants, who found their lawns and walkways in total disarray. It was there between the mess of broken branches, strewn leaves, old newspapers and a couple of flyers that had eventually housed themselves all around her porch, that Megan found the photograph. It was lying face down, somehow stuck to a moving company flyer; but it wa...

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“Simple Pleasures” by Ruth Fernandes

Submitted to Contest #99

My father was not a great philosopher. He didnt leave behind for me a memoir penning down his pearl's of wisdom for me to remember and reminiscence about. He didn't leave behind a legacy of anecdotes for me to be able to refer to and live by. What I do have of him are just the simple memories of him. Memories of simple days with him or times we spent together that created meaning in our lives. An inherent memory of events, a simple day perhaps spent doing nothing, yet somehow it became ingrained into the deepest recesses of my mind for some ...

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