Shazia Parween

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“Litost” by Shazia Parween

Submitted to Contest #14

I've made a mistake, I tell her without meeting her eyes. My eyes scanning my maths homework. So many mistakes there as well."What did you do?" She doesn't seem furious. Of course she doesn't, she doesn't know yet.Something, wrong, I reply slowly; with a long pause between those two words. I don't want to have this conversation. But I'm still trying. Because I know no other way to fix this. I don't know if I can, even fix this. But I need to try. And I am."It's break time" she shifts in her chair. I notice an eight instead of a nine in my an...

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An almost 20-years-old caffeine addict trying to write stories, poems & draw occasionally.