Zyn Marlin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2023

Stories (5)

5 Stories

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“Stolen Moments” by Zyn Marlin

Submitted to Contest #234

The first one was easy, so easy that Magellan almost couldn’t believe it. The girl was sitting in the window as he was passing by, and it was the work of a moment – literally – to catch her attention tenderly in his grasp and redirect it to that middle space where nothing existed. Her eyes glazed over, and he could feel the way her mental energy shifted from thinking to absence. If Magellan had been corporeal, his heart might have leaped, or his stomach might have fluttered, or his face might even have split in a grin of del...

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“Paradise, 2017” by Zyn Marlin

Submitted to Contest #230

Hell looks like four wicker seats around a low coffee table in the open-air lobby of a paradise resort.The Cozumel evening is warm, with a gulf breeze brushing gentle fingers against my bare arms and face and bringing the faint smell of salt and fish and someone’s coconut sunscreen. Round light fixtures in the varnished wood-plank ceiling above us and strings of bulbs outlining the boardwalk back towards the condos cast a soft, magical light by which my three-year-old daughter is coloring pictures at the table. Her wavy ...

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“Ad Aeternum” by Zyn Marlin

Submitted to Contest #211

It is the beginning of everything and he awakens like a drowning person breaching the surface with a toehold on the shore. what is a person what is water what is breathing what is shore But all of it is already inside his consciousness. And then: “Come find me, David,” they say, and the longing is like a supernova expanding inside his being, and he is too small to contain it all, and...

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“Lineage” by Zyn Marlin

Submitted to Contest #210

For the first decade after the Merge, the planets and their inhabitants fought a bloody, brutal war. The Pyrithians had the advantage in natural defense and in technology. Their astronomical engineers had predicted Pyrith’s exit from the plane of its universe into the space occupied by a slightly smaller blue-green planet in a parallel universe and had been able to prepare for the intrusion, so while Pyrithian life losses had still been astronomical, they were almost incomparable to those suffered by the soft-bodied, oblivious humans whe...

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“Greener On the Other Side” by Zyn Marlin

Submitted to Contest #208

Sensitive content warning: Self-harm/suicide, abuse, mental illness. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Bea. Bea was rather a horrid girl, and all through middle school and high school, she and her friends picked on a very nice girl named Katie. Katie and Bea were as different as different could be. Where Bea was self-centered and vain, Katie was generous and humble - and Bea teased her for it. Wher...

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