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Sandra Ramos

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019

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Not I

As a child, my mother would tell me the story of The Little Red Hen. Over and over again she would teach me the lesson this story had to offer. "You harvest what you plant in the ground." Of course, I'm supplying the sugar-coated version, because my mother would have been slurring her words. That woman had her own language I swear because half the time no one could understand her, no one but me. My mother was never really the motherly kind of person in our so-called family, the roles were reversed. With me being the caretaker and my mother b...

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Protection

Submitted to Contest #18

When you grow up in a place like I did survival of fittest was the name of the game. When I was 9, my grandfather called me over to him he said he had something to give me but that it had to be done in private. I was to meet him in his bedroom at six because that's where he had my gift hidden. I kept thinking of what it could be after all he was a veteran. It would be pretty cool to have one of his metals to hang up in my room. The day seemed to drag I was counting the hours, minutes, and seconds, I was waiting for six o'clock. When the tim...

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