Theresa Coleman

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2023

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“The Stairs and Her Tears ” by Theresa Coleman

Submitted to Contest #226

Trigger Warning: Themes of sexual violence and death. “Crying is between you and God at night.” Her sobbing at night still played in my ears as clearly as a bird's chirp in the morning, but there was no denying that it was her body. I was no older than eight when I found my aunt Tesha’s body on the staircase: lifeless, melanated but somehow pale, puffy red eyes, and cracked lips. Those weren’t from death, but from the time she spent crying. She would let her tears slide off her face and onto the floor. That’s how my grandmother put it. “...

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“There was a Roach In the Peach Tree” by Theresa Coleman

Submitted to Contest #213

Trigger Warning: Death, Grief, and ColorismThe milky white mucus that would leak from her eyes had left lines carved into her face. A face I would only ever describe as hypnotically gorgeous was now contorted into a strange expression. My dull brain can’t come up with a fitting explanation for this. The only thing that comes to mind is that it was from an infection. Or perhaps the anguish of taking her final breaths. All that pain made the moisture in her body turn into an indistinguishable whiteness. It was like the clouds of her eventual r...

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