Siú Valery

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

Stories (4)

4 Stories

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“Don't go, father, don't go” by Siú Valery

Submitted to Contest #62

Atelic Dickerson is a scientist with an important mission. He's the head supervisor of the stasis process for the colony ship Indomitable that will be traveling to Trappist-1d, a planet almost 40 light-years away. But his mission today had nothing to do with science but family. He came home to say goodbye to his son and wife since they won't be traveling with him."Father, you're home!". Anselmo, a delicate features eight years old boy said with happiness flowing out of every pore in his lithe body. Suddenly, sadness hit him like a comet impa...

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“The other half of it” by Siú Valery

Submitted to Contest #61

A long time ago I left my hometown Caracas to live in the countryside and now I have returned. Over forty years passed and, although the city looks the same, many an old building has been demolished and a new one built, others have been just renovated giving them a nicer look. I was enjoying my recent retirement and since I had nothing better to do but sightsee, I decided to take a long walk from Chacaito, where I was residing at the moment to Petare, almost nine kilometers, something that I did almost daily during my preteen years, while l...

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“Heartburn” by Siú Valery

Submitted to Contest #59

Kaden Gibson was an inmate working in the Ceres prison farm, a group of ten satellites housing convicted felons who pay his society’s debt by producing food for the general population of the dwarf planet, the largest astronomical object in the asteroid belt. He was serving a twenty years sentence for larceny after he was found guilty of stealing food to feed his two young orphaned sons. Now he was in a place worlds away from home, his kids were sent into different foster care homes and he would probably never see them again. He was working h...

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“Powerless” by Siú Valery

Submitted to Contest #58

Donatello Swaney led a simple life working, as his boss euphemistically says, a Garbage Specialist job. His job is to fly six days a week around a group of satellites that follows Vesta as it orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt and collect all the garbage these satellites produce, to dump it in the recycling plant, a very large satellite that classifies the trash, recycle it into different new raw materials, and then sending the refuse to the burning plant to generate energy. His responsibilities include manning the ...

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