S Aldrich

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2024

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“That-I Think-Is Love” by S Aldrich

Submitted to Contest #282

“I’m sorry that you can’t love.” As a poet, as a human, as a dreamer, I have learned to love. I have learned to grapple with loss, I have learned to endure the heart ache, and I have learned to heal. But you, my dear, you are so caught up with what people think, with distractions, that you cannot bear to confront the very pain which I have learned to feel and accept. You think that feeling is weak and that to feel, to express that feeling, is to be soft in a world where only the rough survive. I think that you’re wrong. “I loved you,” ...

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“The Trial of Identity” by S Aldrich

Submitted to Contest #278

"Please rise for the honorable Judge." Everyone stands so I do as well. A man in a robe traipses down the aisle, sweeping the dust from the floor though only moving it barely, as if pretending to clean it without making any progress. In fact, it doesn’t even move that much dust, it only makes a long trail on the floor, dust moved to the side as if shamed. As he passes, his air suffocates me. An air of pretentious prestige. An air I will have to breathe to plead my case. What case? The Judge sits at his desk and bangs the gavel, “orde...

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