Cara Veldmora

Aspiring new 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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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

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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