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Reema Salah

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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Lady Sleep

Sleep is a seducer. I know her traitorous ways.When the horizon swallows half the sun and leaves the other half burning, she'd come for me walking.When the sun is devoured and darkness reigns, she'd come for me running.When the sun is revived, shimmering with fiery breath, waiting for its fated death and rebirth, Lady Sleep is done with me.She'd always, always get me.She's here now. Slithering into my bed. Her bedding is my head.She lulls me in her cold embrace, whispering sweet promises. I could have it all, she says, she purrs. A Release. ...

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Practice Makes Perfect.

Submitted to Contest #165

Daddy's face was all wrong. The corners of his big mouth stretched, hideously slow, cutting their way upwards through his sunken cheeks. His thin, dry lips parted like curtains, and shiny, uneven teeth greeted her, square and hard as bricks. "This is a smile", she reassured herself. But daddy's eyes didn't smile. They screamed. "So, honey..", Daddy beamed, giddy with deliberate, perfected jolliness. His cheery tone was precise and pitch-perfect, with a touch of manic rage sizzling in his tongue, burning her eardrums....

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