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Felipe Barreda

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2021

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The Book with No Words

I saw the title. It looked interesting. I opened the book, but it was full of blank pages. I overheard a conversation about this book. I couple of young people that had mentioned they found a book with no words and just blank pages and curious to know what it was that they were talking about, I scanned the shelves to find this mysterious book. This had to be an obvious joke. Who would ever buy a book, let alone read a book that had no words in it? I placed the book back on the shelf and never gave it a second look. I left the store and went ...

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The Horror of the Absurd

Submitted to Contest #326

It is Halloween in Miami every day of the year, where the monsters find their homes in the luxury condos that line Brickell Avenue, Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami and along South Beach. The poor, the lonely, homeless and hungry are swept under the rug under the overpasses of I-95, the Dolphin Expressway and the 112-airport express. They dress up in costumes pretending that they are someone that they are not while at the same time they look down on the prolls and plebs below them and tell them to “eat cake.” Welcome to the Fritz Lange d...

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The Sea, Chasing the Sun with Reflections of Life and Everything in Between

Submitted to Contest #324

Still waters ran deep within the depths of my soul as I left my house in the early morning. The sun had not yet risen. I loaded my beach chair and a cooler in my car and cranked the engine on. I passed by the CVS on South Dixie Highway by Mariposa Court to pick up some ice and some drinks. I loaded my cooler and then headed to South Beach. I have been navigating the uncharted waters of a life that seem to have gone wrong and seem to be going nowhere. I am not young, but neither am I old. I am, as Dante would say, midway through my life where...

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The Forest

Submitted to Contest #320

The Forest I wanted to escape to the forest, not to find my shadow but to escape from it. The murder had been so shocking to me that it awoke in me a fear I had not felt for a long time. For a long time, I had tried hard to bury my emotions deep down inside of me, and I thought I had succeeded, but then the world around me started to unravel and old wounds that I thought had healed, once again burst open. One night I got a call from a friend, “Hey did you know that they just killed Johnny out on the Venetian las...

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Haunted Justice

Submitted to Contest #260

I thought I knew Jerry well. He owned a country inn with a pub attached to it somewhere in the New England countryside. He loved people, or so I thought because he was always at the bar or the dining room smiling, laughing and joking. He loved his inn and he loved the pub and it seems that he was happiest here, for who would not be happy coming into a warm and cozy inn where you were treated as a long-lost friend who had to come out from the cold. I thought I knew Jerry well.           J...

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The Devil's Necktie

Submitted to Contest #105

“The Devil’s Necktie Party” Felipe C. Barreda     A beast locked in a cage watching the minutes tick away faster and faster on the clock on the wall; waiting to be put down. He thinks of himself as a savage frothing at the mouth dog unworthy of life. He feels the fear of the inevitable. In a minute or two he will be taken from his cage and sent to a room where they will dress him in leather suspenders and chains in readiness for the necktie party. He is sitting with the priest praying for the fortitu...

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