Bethany Samaddar - querying mode activated
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#flashfiction #poetry #vss365 . Querying novel. Fan of coffee, kindness, musicals, salty air, chocolate & PB (together, of course). Optimist, mom, wife.🚫 DMs
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When Maya finds a memoir written by her ailing mother, she is catapulted into an evocative journey into her family’s past where she must determine where hallucination ends, and truth begins.
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Just typed “The End”on the 1st draft of my 1st novel!
3 years
93k words
Countless hours, doubts & small victories
93k pieces of me
But the best isn’t the book. It’s the self-discovery, the dear friends I’ve met,the possibilities. Keep going, folks!
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I dropped the f-bomb in my book today. It’s a big day. 😂 Do your characters swear? Yes or no?
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I’M STARTING THE FINAL CHAPTER OF MY BOOK!!!!!
*keeps her cool*
*no, she doesn’t*
I’M STARTING THE FINAL CHAPTER OF MY BOOK!!!!!!!!!
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4.5 years later, I FINISHED MY BOOK!
Relationships aside, I’ve never worked harder on anything in my life–never labored more, fussed more, cared more. This book stoked my love of writing, showed me I can do it, & made me feel worthy to call myself a writer.
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One day, I got in the car & drove
#east
. Drove days, nights with nothing but a backpack & $60. I wasn’t driving away from anything, not even toward something. I was simply living, sipping nectar from moments, taking the shape of wind—free & shadowless.
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6 years, 7 drafts. 7 beta readers.
More lost sleep hours than I can count.
But! I have sent my latest version off to my editor & I can say I’m proud of this manuscript & how far it’s come.
More than that, I’m proud I’ve never given up. I wrote a book, folks.
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I told mama, crying, “I’m not like everyone else. Everyone connects and crisscrosses all day, but me, I’m a
#parallel
line. Never intersecting.
“Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that,” Mama said. “Even parallel lines can snuggle up real close, whisper a “I love you.”
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I breathe
#nightmares
into dreams. Loved by
#nobody
, feared by all. Each morning, I sit among willows, weeping the dreams I turned dark, the peace I tore from sleeping hearts. I find solace in sun drops upon eyelids and first breaths of beautiful reality.
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Mama said if she ever came back, it’d be as a firefly. She always kept her word, so I spent summer watching
#fireflies
dance like fallen stars. I got real anxious wondering which glittery dot was Mama. Then I realized, it’d take every dot in the sky to equal Mama’s love.
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I walked outside of town to see if I could still see the stars without you sitting beside me. I looked up, and there they were, twinkling from their
#nest
of eternity. I knew then that love is the ultimate finder—it’s only hearts that lose their way.
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Weeping willows cannot unbend their branches
The sky cannot
#sit
to greet weary hearts
The sea cannot dry of life and remain an ocean
But I wither to lavender dust and my love for you flowers evermore
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#poem
#poetry
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She calls me “Mom,” humming as she tucks me in. Her presence soothes like the first glimpse of green after winter lifts her bleak veil.
My mind is locked from the inside out, shadows
#manipulate
the dance of memory. But, oh, her voice.
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Lay me in whispers, soft & rustling
Until my soul becomes a secret
Dancing like a poet’s pen under light
Shepherd me through ageless night
To glades where wildflowers bloom
Wrap me in birdsong until I am a note, a murmur of a lullaby
Let me sleep among spruce &
#lichen
, until
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All the teachers called on me, but I never answered. I’d throw things, storm out, anything not to talk. “She’s so
#oppositional
,” they’d say. Until Ms. Smith. “Did you know King George VI stuttered?” she asked. I don’t know how she knew, but I found my voice that day.
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My heart speaks in
#riots
Quiet though they may be
Can you hear it?
Or is it but a whisper
A cacophony below a summer’s green
A storm folded in brooding sea
Or am I but a
#firefly
stealing kisses from the sun?
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I search for you on sun-soaked morns
Look for you on shells of stars, flickering in your past light
I try to steal a particle for myself but you slip under
#ash
-es of then
I cannot hold you, for hands of yesterday and today can never meet
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Only one night to make amends—24 hours to erase 24 years. The first light of sun warms my cheek like a campfire where stories are rewritten, and the smoke of the past charms the night. It’s time to write a new
#screenplay
, daylight my page, minutes my ink.
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Why seek
#closure
, darling?
Let us remain an open song
That stirs on morning breeze
And glints on moon’s playful brow
Let us remain a wayward wish
That murmurs at eventide
And hides in scent of summer rain—warm and free
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Pinocchio’s nose grew when he lied. Your face turned
#pale
, as if the good Lord was gonna come down and take you straight to Judgment. I thought it was funny. Until I asked you if you loved me & your face turned as white as
#ghosts
caressing the moon.
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I am stardust, floating in cold space, waiting to be more
Saturn, made of ice & shattered moons
You look at me thru Hubble eyes
See rings & light, crystal ribbons in the sky
Cosmic
#strangers
collide
You, a stargazer in search of a star
Me, a universe in search of a sun
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She looks at me, eyes
#moonstruck
from the quay upon craggy shore
I pray I’ll never forget those shore-born eyes that held me for many a night & morrow
But the ocean turns hours to years & boy to man, and my Bonnie is but a memory
For land and sea, they meet but once
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Everything sturdy erodes in time—the
#grain
stringing our hearts together; the tree we etched our initials upon. The wind holds no memory, the earth no footprints. Look only to the stars, which hold a lingering light of us.
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Serendipity tapped my window
Gliding, lithe & airy
I trailed behind
Over rooftops & moon-soaked timbers
Thru the night we chased
Til dawn’s eyelids raised
And I fell like a sack of moon rocks on my bed
Giggling, Serendipity
#vanished
I smiled, knowing she’s out there
Ready to
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Some say night is the great obscurer, keeper of shadows. Us, we yearn for the sunless sky when the moon’s
#spotlight
rises & she opens her computer. With each stroke, she pens our existence, our world bordered by ink and dreams. The writer’s day ends, our story begins.
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Some people’s memories are stones, sinking depths to become lost pebbles of the sea. Some memories
#behave
like hummingbirds, fluttering color on mid-sky canvas. Mine are fireflies, just enough light to fashion stars from tears.
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Fate brought us to this place of shuttered glass
I search for slivers of sky
From which to pluck a breath
Or glimpse a summer bloom
But there’s only memories here
And they can’t save us
For they bloom under past suns
So I sit in shadows—alone
Your flower tucked in my palm
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Waves are just slivers of sea
Seeking the touch of shore
#Rejected
, they retreat to the longing deep
Yet, within a breath, they return
Creating magic in the sound of resolve, the salt of tears
The necklace of foam & broken shell they leave behind
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Every morning, she wakes up whole. But as minutes give way to hours, fractions of her fall away. By nightfall, she’s a perimeter, a shell in search of an essence. She lies at the shoreline, a shadow among
#heron
-s, letting the waves take her.
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They told us our only hope was
#quarantine
. Space was limited, so lotteries were held. Those left behind gathered around fires. We took turns, young and old, telling stories into the painted dawn. When it all went dark, I had the feeling another story would soon begin.
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Every night, we’d walk by the fountain. You’d ask what I wished for, but I’d never tell. The water cascades, and I clench my empty hand. “I wished for one more walk with you.” A breeze brushes my cheek, circles me like an embrace. Some magic never dies. The magic of us.
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Darling, we were made for glancing up
For sculpting castles from fallen stars
My water lily, opening your bloom at dusk
So I can find you in this
#fluid
swirl of night
And these shadows, dear, look like stardust next to you
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The night sky is a map of our love–each star, a word spoken; the dark void in between, all the words unspoken. I used to look up, see glitter and light. Since you passed, I glance the sky, see only a
#wall
of black. All I want is time for more stars.
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