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Saiyara Khanom

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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Galloway, Repeating

Submitted to Contest #306

Text Message Thread – October 14, 2023 – 9:14 PM Alice: Did you get the keys? Nate: Yeah. Front desk guy looked at me weird though. Alice: He always looks at everyone like that. Just ignore him. Nate: The place looks… untouched. Alice: Don’t go in the attic. Seriously. Nate: You’re joking? Alice: I’m not. Just don’t. Voicemail – October 14, 2023 – 11:58 PM From: Nate EverlyHey, um… I know you said not to go in the attic but—okay, I went in.There’s this old trunk. It’s not locked. There’s a recorder in it. Like, a tape recorder?And photos. ...

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The Hour of Moths

Submitted to Contest #304

During the day, Clara Gray was a husk. She’d sit at her desk in the cramped apartment she called her studio, the blinds half-drawn against the assault of sunlight, sipping stale coffee and staring at a blinking cursor. Her laptop, an old silver model with a dented corner and one stubborn key, hummed with an eager desperation she couldn’t match. The world outside pulsed with life—laughter in the alley, dogs barking, car horns and bicycles—but inside, everything was static.Her agent called once a week, always chirping with forced optimism.“How...

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Thorns for Her Crown

Submitted to Contest #303

Let them call me the villain. I’ll wear it like a title.They will sing about her, not me.She was the golden one. Born under a comet, kissed by prophecy, she had the people’s love before she could speak. I came three years earlier, during a storm. No songs. No prophecy. Just silence, and a nursemaid who flinched at my cry.There are no ballads for shadows.The court adored her. Elira. Even her name sounded delicate. She giggled, they clapped. She wept, they trembled. She made promises she didn’t know how to keep. I watched from the edge, where ...

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