Please join me in congratulating the runner-up for our our April 2024 flash fiction contest, Mara AU! The premise of Mara's two-sentence horror story is wonderfully relatable and is surely a nightmare many have encountered either in real life or in their dreams. Mara, thank you so much for contributing your work to this contest and for a job well-done!
Nightmare of Monday Morning by Mara AU
Important job interview today. My roommate drunk the last of the coffee yesterday.
Bio
Image Description: A coffee pot in antiqued metal decorated with ornate scrollwork. A similarly artistic coffee mug sits beside it.
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Mara (they/them) is an autistic and queer writer. For as long as they remember, they have loved to make stories, build fantastical worlds, and spend most of their time there. They never saw themself represented in any of the books they read, and it made them wonder if something was wrong with them. They say that if we don't see ourselves in the stories we read, we somehow don't exist. Years later, with the encouragement of their partner, they started to write the stories they always wanted to read when they were younger.
You can read more of Mara's work on Neobook at https://neobook.org/uykxs3llt0/ or listen to their readings on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@maratellsstories.
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