Talulah Pellon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“Seeds of the Unspoken, Water of Change” by Talulah Pellon

Submitted to Contest #235

The buzz of anticipation had created a charged atmosphere of resolve and silent narratives that each of the eighty-eight runners carried with them. Kael's assertion, almost to herself, was a whisper lost in the cacophony of nervous energy, "We're chasing after a finish line that doesn't exist." The runner beside her, his long limbs a stark contrast against the short, sharp shadows of the morning sun, glanced at her with a bemused expression. "Sorry?" he asked, his brow furrowed under a bandana streaked with sweat before the race had even beg...

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“Common Troubles” by Talulah Pellon

Submitted to Contest #140

My Dad was sitting on the swinging bench with a pile of my books again. This time he didn't take anything from my nightstand, the stuff I was currently picking away at. So while I was weary about why exactly he was interested in my reading selection- at least I wouldn't be missing anything that I wanted to pick up. My parents had deposited us at the lake house cabin in upstate New York with our aunts and cousins, as they did every summer. The cabin had ten beds on the highest floor and three private bedrooms for the adults, more than en...

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“A Meaningful Contribution ” by Talulah Pellon

Submitted to Contest #140

When Zyra's family had been allocated the land and the house for free, they did not mistake it for a gift. It was, however, an opportunity for the family to rise above the unfortunate circumstances that had displaced them all. Zyra's mother had lost her Singaporean citizenship as they'd been on public assistance for far too many generations. Nevertheless, her skills had kept them afloat in the early years that the family had settled on the wet Florida coastal town.She opened a chili crab restaurant under their stilt house. People ate her foo...

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“The Fourth Realm of Heaven Without You” by Talulah Pellon

Submitted to Contest #132

My father is a devote Buddhist, and my mother is more of an agnostic spiritualist, and though they have very different ideas about the nature of God, they got together because of their shared beliefs about economics. Mainly the belief that capitalism leads to the inevitable suffering of the majority. Ever since they married twenty years ago, they’ve known that they would eventually leave the planet to settle on a colony world with a different economic system. I’ve known it too.Since the day I was born, my parents have been trying to prepare ...

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“"How We Come Together"” by Talulah Pellon

Submitted to Contest #131

Ying opened the present wrapped in brown paper that Jacob, her new brother-in-law, had gotten her for Christmas. It was coffee. Ying didn't really drink coffee that much. Much less go through the trouble of making it from unground beans. The package had a black skull and a gun on the cover. She smiled and looked up at him, hoping she could keep her mask of pleasantry secured for at least the next few hours. "Oh wow, is this a famous brand in the US? I've never heard of it." Glancing at the faces of her husband's family, she guessed the ans...

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Author bio

I mostly write science fiction and fantasy and am living abroad. Huge fan of Octavia Butler.