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  • How do you make time for self-care? View all responses Self Care… it feels like such a funny thing. To care for ones self. I feel that as a mother we tend to put everyone else’s needs ahead of our own. And if we choose to put ourselves first we are seen and told that…

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  • Notes & Napkins

    Notes & Napkins

    She was beautiful just sitting there in the coffee shop her long hair surrounding her like a shield. Silver laptop open and purple headphones that covered her ears she never looked directly towards me but I felt comfort when she was near. I, sitting on the other end of the shop, am working on a…

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  • Lake

    Lake

    Her dark skin glowed back at the moonlight hitting the lake. She laid there out on the water floating, looking up at the moon. Thinking over the past and everything this life would eventually take. The stars twinkled on the surface and she appeared to be in the sky more so than on earth. Her…

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  • Can you see me now?

    Can you see me now?

    Write a story with the line “I don’t understand.” Posted in Short Story on May 9, 2025 https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts./ I could feel the tension in the room as soon as I walked in. The shivers went up my spine and there was an ache in my stomach. The class was full, the sound of pencils scratching paper and…

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  • Imagine

    I keep seeing a post saying “Imagine making pancakes at 2 am with the love of your life.” But what if you were hosting the carne asada? To me that is love. That is home. That resonates so much more. With Love, GV Rioz

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  • Destroyer

    Destroyer

    The sounds of the bombs surrounded us and I grabbed her hand so we could run. I told her to never look back, the life we had the home it was still there just now it was in our memory. We would have that home once again. Far in the future we would find a…

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  • Across the Way

    Across the Way

    I have never been good at describing love. Love makes me anxious, it makes me wonder, it makes me sad. In moments it makes me happy and overwhelmed with my emotions. In others it makes me feel grief like I’ve lost someone dear to me and had no memories of why they meant so much.…

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  • Us Against the Storm

    Us Against the Storm

    Will she choose love or freedom in a world where you may not be offered both?

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  • Journey

    Today I started writing a new book Something different, more real Fantasy and the supernatural are things that make me feel creative and inspired But this one. This book. It’s raw. It’s more me More me than I have ever allowed someone to see Deeper than my poetry book My heart is already cut and…

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