Writer. Storyteller. First-Generation Witness
I write flash fiction and short stories rooted in real life.
I'm Dora Acosta — writer, educator, and first-generation Haitian American. I hold a Master's in Education. I publish weekly at Ordinary Witness and have work currently under consideration by literary journals. I believe that stories teach what nothing else can. I write about ordinary moments.
Every week, a new story.
Ordinary Witness collects micro stories rooted in real observation and shaped by imagination. Small moments. Ordinary lives. The kind of things that turn out to matter once someone writes them down.
"The evening became dusk, and our versions of events filled up the space between us."
- Dora Acosta