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Yazmine Bennett

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

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The Thing You Become

Weekly Contest #168

With the city sprawled before her, she tried her best not to let the tears fall. She was finally here, the capital city, but it was never how she had imagined. How did it turn out like this? Her dream of living in the capital with her family was ruined in an instant. She knew she couldn’t think like this. She had to be positive she had to live on for them. The train was pulling up to the station, so she wiped away the last of her tears and captured a screenshot of the city out the window before heading for the platform. She had never seen an...

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Fake Friend

Weekly Contest #161

“What do you mean, you’re dead?” “Well, I mean, I wanted to tell you, it’s just we got along so well and then it just got weirder and weirder to tell you” “I but…like I can see you and I can hug you” “Yeah, I’m not going to lie not sure how the hugging thing works, because I can walk through walls, and I can’t really touch anything.” “I swear I have seen you eat before” “I mean did you though or did you just think you did?” “I guess I didn’t pay attention. Wait does that mean I just walk around looking like I’m talking to air?” ...

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My Engineer to the Stars

Weekly Contest #160

I look up, and he is already looking at me. His eyes never leave my face. He is waiting for me to react, and I just stare with my mouth hanging open like a guppy. Unable to process this information. Not wanting to believe it. “I am sorry, Maive, I have to go and you…” “And I have to stay, I will probably never leave” “I….I’m” “Sorry? I know. I just wish…..” “I know even another day would be so……..nice” We just stare at one another. Hoping that one of us can change something. Make it different. “How could they move up your launch time so fa...

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