Tag: growing up

Neptune’s Bed
November 14, 2025
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| Family, Prose
Her neptunian bed did it again. "Would it be alright if I took a small nap, 20 minutes maybe?" her friend asks, just moments after sitting on that cloud of scrambled sheets, and the original heap of clothes to one side (nobody but her knows for sure if they're dirty or clean). "Something about your bed, it's got some strange power going on..." Immense gravity pulls them to surrender, insomniacs will be absorbed into the vortex inevitably, she's a piscean...

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The Amber Pearl
October 16, 2024
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| Family, Prose, Uncategorized
She lay alone again,  thought she might cease to be, in the disarray of the unsupported mattress, the humid night, her newness to love. But someone was there, even greater than herself,  a pearl, sleeping in a cold river, reflecting amber light back into her head. She knew she'd lost, and back then believed it was everything. But one night, when summer began to dwindle, she realized she remained, above herself, as varnish sometimes does, even over worn out wood. Next...

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Bodies and Gurus continued
July 13, 2024
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| Family History, Prose
Rhaya got on with the program a week later. The lanky exercise lady's book never returned to its place in the shelf, she kept it close by, on her nightstand. Now she had all the tools needed to keep herself in check, using the book as reference material. An extreme urge pressed on her to do it flawlessly, with total concentration. All other aspects of her life would have to wait, like cleaning her room; talking to Gaby, her best...

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Sonia (novelette continues)
November 30, 2023
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Marshmallow candy
Chapter 3 from ¿Who Will Help Sonia? Rhaya never forgot anything of what came after that particular morning, but it was clearly part of the past. Something she had gone through and seen to the very end. But now with her niece Sonia emotions stirred. A shake of the old vinaigrette which had been sitting in her mental fridge for ages. The contents still there, unchanged, but for a while the particles whirled in chaos before settling.  Sunny Sonia had...

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Potbelly Bump (novelette continues)
September 3, 2023
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Chapter 2 from ¿Who Will Help Sonia? There is no such thing as a homemaker who is only that. A mother to three young ladies in their teens, Rhaya knew better than to conceive such bland thoughts about motherhood, even if the now older millennials insisted on asking what she did for a living, if she had a LinkedIn profile, or what her professional title was. Sometimes, on a flight to see her sister Amanda, who lived south, she came...

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