Amanda Chan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“The Crab's Apple” by Amanda Chan

Submitted to Contest #247

We all hide in our holes under the sand. I’ve never liked living below ground. It’s damp and moist, keeps us alive but I can barely see a thing down here. I like it when it’s nighttime on the beach, where we can roam freely without those surface giants bothering us.  Major Eileen Dominicus Crab orders us to stay put whenever the earthquakes sound from above. And that today is every few minutes.  The surface giants stomp around, making our bodies rock against each other. Something touches my leg, and I move to escape whatever it is....

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“So Yesterday” by Amanda Chan

Submitted to Contest #174

"I swear sixteen was yesterday, but now I'm closer to twenty eight," I hear my sister Britney singing the lyrics from some new Instagram reel trend in the bedroom next to mine. "You turned sixteen just yesterday," I mutter. Britney has an amazing voice, and I think she can make it to the big record companies one day. One day, I’ll be in the crowd waving glow sticks and huge posters for her as she blasts out those original pop tunes. I am jealous of her, because I don’t have a special talent that everyone can admire. For now, even though ...

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“Requiem Of The Split” by Amanda Chan

Submitted to Contest #30

Celeste was at her desk, about to doze off.The lecturer was talking about Thomas Hardy and John Keats. She knew nothing of poetry except for their names."Who was the person who broke off the yoke of slavery?"Celeste looked at her lecturer.She had no idea, but she would never admit it."Excuse me, what does that have to do with poetry?"One of her classmates raised his hand to ask."Five hundred dollars and twenty cents! Sold!"The cage was open, and the lioness pounced.She had been to the circus, and she was not ever going to return. On all four...

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Author bio

Poet and fiction writer. Head always in the clouds, dreaming about the impossible. Find me @skinandthoughts on Instagram!