Tanja Riley

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2022

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“We Were Kids” by Tanja Riley

Submitted to Contest #141

CW: Mention of: physical violence against minors, statutory rape, substance abuse, murder, suicide. None of it described graphically. Also contains coarse language.Only with the utmost generosity could it even be called a restaurant. We at least never ate there. No matter how much our stomachs growled and begged for something to alleviate the nausea induced by cheap vodka. The tables were scratched and the floors always sticky. The bathrooms, indescribably dirty. To be used only for extreme emergencies, like retching until there was nothing ...

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“Siren Song” by Tanja Riley

Submitted to Contest #140

  “I would sell my soul just to make something different happen,” Eleanor said loudly to herself.  She had been talking to herself more and more lately. With each new gray hair she found in the mirror, with every new wrinkly on her husband’s face, with every bang echoing in the hall when their teenage daughter slammed the door, she became more vocal. Sometimes she cried out during simple chores, like a drowning woman, the sheer mundanity of life filling up her lungs.  She was getting old and had little to show f...

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Author bio

I discovered the hobby of writing in late 2021 and since then I've been hooked! English isn't my first language though, so it might be that you'll have to bear with me in places. I also recently finished the first draft of my first novel, an existentialist fantasy. Super excited about it.