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Alejandra Labrado

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2023

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December 22, 2018

Two months had gone by since my dad passed away, and I finally had a day to do some cleaning in my home office. Piles of papers and mail had accumulated over months. Life had been on hold since February 12th, 2018, when my dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. After all this time, I saw the need for doing some purging and sorting of mail that was seven to eight months old. A part of me had forgotten he was gone until I paused to look at a holy card stuck in a crevice of my desk. I turned it around and saw his name with "June 8, 19...

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I Can't Sleep

Submitted to Contest #224

By Alejandra Labrado “I can’t sleep.” whispered the little girl as she tugged on her mother, Maria’s arm. Maria didn’t flinch. Her mouth was wide open with slobber all over her pillow. She was exhausted after a long day working at the hospital. Earlier that day, a drunken man had staggered into the crowded emergency room, slumped over an old lady in a wheelchair, and vomited all over the floor. Maria gagged as she mopped up the mess. Meanwhile, sick children were crying, the old lady was yelling, and others just stared at her as she d...

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