Cara Veldmora

Writer based in Brooklyn, NY —Having a non-verbal daughter with autism has shown me the immense value of words, no matter how simple, when they can’t be spoken. She is my inspiration!

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Cara Veldmora

Writer based in Brooklyn, NY —Having a non-verbal daughter with autism has shown me the immense value of words, no matter how simple, when they can’t be spoken. She is my inspiration!

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Reflections

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Cara Veldmora

3 min read

The two of us step in unison toward the edge of the roaring river rumored to show wicked visions to any who step into it.

Its midnight blue waves are streaked with currents like white lightning under the height of the sun. The reflecting light glares at us. We are blind from fully seeing what’s on the other side beyond shadowy smudges of shapes we can guess at.

With a fleeting glance at me, Luke...

Fantasy

All For Eternity

Cara Veldmora

1 min read

Create a unique religious belief that your imaginary world has that allows you to gain a peaceful afterlife. What must you do? What does the afterlife hold for you? If they don’t do it, what hell will they experience? ...

Fantasy

The Power Of Words

Cara Veldmora

1 min read

Write a story about a world where no one can speak but only those with magic are the ones able to. ...

Fantasy

Trials of Trust

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Cara Veldmora

2 min read

Some battles are waged within.

This one might just be the biggest I’ll ever face.

That truth is the only thing keeping me from crumpling onto the floor in a pitiful heap.

Instead, I spin and duck to avoid the blade aimed my way.

The cold steel sang a sorrowful tune as it swept through the air.

I track its arc and force my body to still before it can claim an offering from me.

A reckless...

Fantasy

Bubblegum Before Death

Cara Veldmora

2 min read

Mayhem has ruled the streets since our impending doom was announced a week ago.

Even the cracked pavement I was ambling down wasn’t spared from the chaos. A city gone mad around me, but I was just in search of a pack of watermelon bubblegum.

Folks were shoving each other or using bats to break into shops.

Glass crunched under my feet as the scent of burnt leather filled my nostrils.

Up ahea...

Action

Adventure

Invisible

Cara Veldmora

1 min read

My image is perfect

An infinite duality of reality

I am crisp and clear

No ripples mar my surface

With edges cut clean and sharp

Only fog, splatter, and tarnish can gray what’s reflected

Many stop to take a glimpse in me

To admire their own likeness

I capture what I see within my crystal trap

Their colors, shapes, and textures unique

Refracting light displaying rainbows of life in my prism

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Poetry

Fantasy

Palette Of Creation

Cara Veldmora

3 min read

The Creator stood over the blank expanse like an artist before a canvas.

With a flick of their wrist, four glowing orbs hovered before their presence.

Each bobbed and flowed in their own unique way. The blue one pulled and pushed in a harmonious pattern which was drastically different than the red one beside it who burst and flared in angry dilation. The green glowed a steady color with faint p...

Fantasy

Plenty Of Fish In The Sea

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Cara Veldmora

8 min read

Tonight is my last hope.

I’ve tried every app, every speed dating event, and just about every type of being at this point in my life.

I’ve kissed a few frogs thinking they were princes. Turns out they were just part of the Amphibious alien species that populated some planet I’ve never heard of and lied about their heritage of royalty.

Maybe I’m just gullible.

Or naive.

Am I just desperate to ...

Science fiction

Romance

It Begins With Dawn

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Cara Veldmora

8 min read

The world burned below me as I floated in the safety of the spaceship my dad had secured our passage on.

I stood gazing out a small circular window at the soon to be charred rock previously called home.

There were no more tears left in me at this point in the journey. My eyes were dried out knowing 8 billion people have died in the span of a week after the meteor hit earth causing monstrous tsun...

Science fiction

Fantasy

The Dreamcatcher’s Lament

Winner - 1st

Cara Veldmora

7 min read

Father Time has many children.

I am the lowest, the most hated, and least useful of all his children.

He favors Fate and Harmony out of all of us, but even Nightmare has value in the eyes of Father Time. Serendipity and Nostalgia are somewhere in the mix, but even then, I am still the runt of them all.

See my brother, Fate, weaves the destinies of all humans within the span of time our Father has ...

Fantasy