Allison Cho

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2022

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Bloody Daughterhood” by Allison Cho

Submitted to Contest #211

The heartbeat in the womb is very loud - as loud as a church bell that wakes up the whole town. It thudded at such speed with blood pouring into me with warmth. The dull and soft sound is imprinted in my brain. The pinkish-orange light coming through the belly was my whole world before the contraction started. It squeezed and pushed me. The first pain I feel - it was as ecstatic as the dance of the burning flame. The light was overwhelming my sight, the cold rushed into my skin, enveloping me with the shiver. It is an unfortunate...

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“The Golden Hair” by Allison Cho

Submitted to Contest #211

The room is full of a thick burning odor that gently tightens my throat. The rippling flames of the fireplace endlessly repeat to climb up the air and sit down again. Devastated, they gather around Howard's golden strand of hair. They put their hands on him like in the baptism and their warmth is delivered to a part of him. The golden hair illuminates like a little flash, and it becomes dust that I breathe. As the ashes fly into the room, I start to talk in a low voice as if I was reading to myself. Howard looked like a white soap...

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“Dance of a Paintbrush” by Allison Cho

Submitted to Contest #211

Jay Beckerman is an eccentric yet boring man. He drinks peptic as a beverage, and from some point in his life, it became the only liquid he drank besides water. Boxes of green little bottles are piled up at the side of the room like an old accolade. Above the boxes, there is a picture of a woman sitting on a stair with gloomy eyes like the green glistening on the glass bottles, yet she is smiling. There is another picture of her on the back side of a tiny postcard on the table. Same smile, but she has red eyes this time. All of th...

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Author bio

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable. - Rimbaud