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Marilyn Evangelou

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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The Speech

We were stood there, she held my hand, wrapped her little fingers around my palms, squeezed it tight and whispered, ‘Speak now’. I held my breath, nausea washed over me, I swallowed, hard and gained composure. My hands were shaking whilst holding the microphone, I wondered if people noticed. The speech on my phone looked smaller and I could have sworn the words on the screen were moving too. I looked up and saw a hundred, no, ninety-eight pair of eyes staring at me. All of them, wide-eyed and half smiling, waiting patiently for me to simply ...

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I tried to tell her nicely.

Weekly Contest #94

Write a story in which a character justifies an argument with: “Because i said so.”’  I tried to tell her nicely.  She likes Marvel movies, helps her disconnect, occasionally she’ll complain but she gets sucked in quite quickly. It is one of the few moments we have together that we enjoy. She relishes in anything that affects us whether it’s past or present; she enjoys painfully dissecting it. She doesn’t know how to let go, to deal with it as and when it comes, it’s her coping mechanism ...

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