Sylvie Smith

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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“Abuela's Lesson ” by Sylvie Smith

Submitted to Contest #137

“Do not be a pussy, Mason. Get your ass up that tree!” “I’m not sure we should be doing this, Eadrich.” “Oh yeah? Well 50 bucks a pop tells me we would be estupido not to do this. How else do you plan to make a whole year’s salary in a few months, boy?” “I know, it’s just…” “It is just your ass if you don’t get moving, NOW!” I wrap my climbing strap around the tree, stick in my shoe spike and start my ascent. I am a hell of a climber so I reach the nest quickly. Inside the hollow are three very small, naked and blind chicks sleepi...

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“Melted Mind” by Sylvie Smith

Submitted to Contest #136

“Ahhhhhh, again already?!”, I moan as I wake with another crushingly oppressive headache. I have been sporadically tortured by this ailment for as long as I can remember but the last few months, it has been intolerable. First, I’m hit with a piercing hot icepick to my right temple, then the pressure behind my eye builds until I feel like it’s going to erupt and ooze out of the socket. Then there’s the sound. The high-pitched whirring that courses through my brain. Growing louder and louder until the torment consumes all of my senses. All I c...

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“Doomsday Diary ” by Sylvie Smith

Submitted to Contest #134

“Hmm, what’s this” I wonder out loud as if anyone is around to hear me. It seems like an odd-looking trinket of some kind, made of a soft metal maybe? It’s pretty badly charred and sort of… melted. ‘Could be an artificial tooth or something’, I think as I raise it to my mouth and furl the corner of my lip as if to test its fit. ‘Eh I don’t know, looks kind of weird’, I decide as I think twice about actually putting it in my mouth. At this point I’m just collecting anything that could possibly be of some use and metals always have worth, espe...

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Author bio

Writing gives my soul the voice it's never had... I've been writing since I was a kid but have only recently begun sharing my stories with the world. I tend to write Sci-Fi, Fantasy, the occasional Comedy and anything else that pops into my funny little head. Thanks for Reading!