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Haripriya Madabushi

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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The Sun comes up

Tonight’s going to be a great night! Or so I tell myself during my self TedTalk. I wake up at 2 p.m.—the glamorous hour of the graveyard shift goblins—to get ready for my last night in the Pediatric ICU for this month. I open my blinds, a warm, weirdly optimistic buzz to find the opposite: clouds and gloom. The sky obviously forgot how to sky today. A calendar reminder pops on my phone to kindly inform me that I have a blind coffee date with a Mom-approved electrical engineer who, based on our texts, might actually be 14. Still, hope dies ha...

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Pause

This short story contains sensitive content, specifically death. “Happy 32nd! Your bifocals are awaiting your return!” My lips twitch at the text from my brother at a very late 5am, probably because he didn’t wake up for her midnight alarm. Another birthday at the airport, just as it should be, because this is where I belong. “Happy birthday, Son,” the elderly man peeping over my shoulder wishes me. “Don’t worry bifocals aren’t too bad.” I half smile and forgive him for intruding- New Orleans southerners generally have no malicious intent an...

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They Say

Weekly Contest #59

Most people start their mornings with a cup of coffee. Although I am more of a ‘tea now, tea later, tea forever’ kind of person, today I am going to need to conform to the accepted rules due to the unnecessary number of drinks I was peer-pressured into downing last night. My friend was convinced it was needed, for some reason. The place he chose was a teeming club, packed with every other person in the city; or at least it felt like it. All I said was “I’m bored.” He immediately poured me drink along with a “Get a boyfriend.” “I said I’m b...

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