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Luna Juarez

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2020

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Ghost Town

Ever since I was young, I could see and feel the dead. I never told anyone because I was afraid everyone was going to hate me and make fun of me for it. I lived in what you called a small town, no new passerbys ever came, but I was used to the same faces. It was called Lunar, Uinz. My mother was a kind soul, the same as my dad, but was weird with me. Not inappropriately weird, just seems like they were hiding something from me, but it’s not like I had any secrets of my own. I mean ghosts and humans look almost the same except when they start...

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My Heart and Body

Weekly Contest #101

My family, especially my mother, always had some sort of expectation that I would like her once I was 18 with a skinny body and big assets. I didn’t inherit the skinny stomach or the hips. Ever since hearing her stories about her life before my siblings and me, all I could think about was being the same. To be beautiful and have a life of luxury thanks to it. I looked in the mirror every morning to check if I had gotten more beautiful. But I didn't end up like that. There’s no one I could blame but myself for it. I hated my plump body. The...

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Old Doves

Weekly Contest #81

I looked at my spouse with a wrinkled grin. Almost 70 years together. Together, we had four children and seven grandchildren. I got up from my chair and grabbed my photo album of us. There was one photo from us when we just started dating. We sat in my father's diner and snapped a photo of us, sharing a milkshake. I remember we were seventeen when they said yes. I took them to get a burger with me. "Thank you, dad." I thanked. My dad nodded and handed me the photo, walking away to help a customer. My date looked at me. "You promise we'll...

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