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Vanessa Severino

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2023

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Before Ben Left

The Night Before Ben Left Town for the Navy. Ben & Haddie just returned from eating soft shell crabs for the last time for a while on the Connecticut Shoreline. Laughing up a storm as these two always were found doing. Usually over something goofy Ben said of course. Haddie could always count on her Ben to make her laugh when life made you feel like crying. Her Ben, two words Haddie repeated back to herself in her head. She could not bring herself to the thought that this might not be the case after tomorrow. The two plopped on the wicke...

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An unwavering type of love

Once lived a character by the name of Haddie Page St James. Haddie was 21 years old. She had some amazing opportunities present themselves that were extremely hard to resist. But because all the opportunities had features that Haddie was equally as devoted too, she was torn as to which door to walk through, and what door to pass up, as well as which door to close behind her and never look back. In order to even start a new chapter, her current chapter needed closure. This was painfully difficult for Haddie to even fathom. Haddie had spe...

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The Book That Set Me Free

Regina was a bond woman. She lived most of her adult life held captive by her wounds, her trauma, her hurt, pain, bitterness that she felt for having been abandoned, rejected, betrayed by the very people that should have loved, honored and protected her. She did have some connection to her maker. In fact, every day, just about, you would find this woman on her knees begging God to change the very people that caused her so much pain. Until one day, something changed. Regina had been on a retreat. Taking a sabbatical from her busy life....

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The Marine

It was the year 1990...Vanessa, age 20 was traveling back from Walt Disney World with her father Jack and younger sister Jeanine. They were on their layover, killing time at the check in terminal for their next flight leaving Alanta, Georgia and heading into Kennedy Airport. Vanessa happened to glance at a newspaper resting on a chair in the reception area. The headlines caught her eye. Vanessa picked it up and read the article further. It was at that very moment, that she discovered that her hometown boyfriend Tom who was in the Marines was...

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This is all my fault

Once upon a time, lived a boy by the name of Michael Ryan. Michael lived in a small New England suburban town, by the name of Winter Haven. Ever since Michael was 11 years old, he struggled big time with his mental health. He showed signs of struggle, even as young age 4, yet it was when he was 11, that it really began to take a major toll on his life. Michael at just the young age of 11, began to experiment with hallucinate drugs. What Michael used to self-medicate, actually made his condition worse. Michael was in the 6th grade, when h...

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Lost Love

Once there was this talented young man, by the name of Luca. Luca was 17 years young. Ever since Luca was just a little boy, he always had an old soul. He thought much deeper than his peers about a lot of different things of tangible value. Luca loved playing ice hockey. He learned how to play at the age of 3. He was quite good at it. Quite good at it indeed.One day in the year 2025, Luca and some friends ventured off to a pond nearby to skate on the ice. Earlier that afternoon, before him and his group of friends headed to the pond, Luca, s...

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Never Underestimate a Small Gesture

Weekly Contest #328

Vanessa sat quietly behind the desk at the pregnant women in crisis center, praying fervently over the list of phone numbers in the logbook open in front of her. "Dear God, protect these young pregnant women in crisis. Help them to realize that although they may feel all alone, they are not all alone. For you promise never ever to leave us or forsake us."In walked in Amanda Richards, a 20-year-old Caucasian woman who recently discovered that she is with child. "How can I think I could afford to take care of another human being when I cannot...

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Hope inside a seemingly hopeless world

Weekly Contest #231

Hope, it's what keeps us keeping on. Life without hope, is life without life, if you ask me. However, does it really matter where hope comes from, whether its false hope or true hope? Well, yes and no, it depends. Let me share the story of three different people, and how having hope made a great deal of a difference. Meet Frank, he is a middle-aged divorced man almost 59. He had one young adult daughter named Nancy. Frank has Stage 4 Breast Cancer. Based on the prognosis given to him by Frank's medical physician, time is not on Frank's si...

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