Amanda Song

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2024

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“The Machine” by Amanda Song

Submitted to Contest #235

Beep, beep-beep, beep!New sound, new routine. My ears flick backward and forward, triangulating the source. There, in the center of the room, is a monstrous contraption my human installed the day before. It’s all wrong. The smell, the sight of it. The attention Sarah gives it as she taps the front panel.I stretch and jump down from my perch atop the cat tree. As I pad to the hulking grey and black beast, Sarah pauses to watch me. I sense her hold her breath the way she does when she’s curious to see how I act and afraid that the slighte...

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“Delays and Dangerous Ends” by Amanda Song

Submitted to Contest #234

Dear Rose, You and time have lots in common. Time spurns me, yet it is kind to the stars. It sends us their light across an infinite expanse of dark nothingness, mocking me with the possibility of seeing something that’s already long gone. Do you ever read these letters? Or are they also victims of time, left to fade and yellow until all that remains is a dusty silhouette of us?I am writing to you on the patio. None of our old stars are visible tonight. It was only when you came over and sat in the wicker chair beside me, bundled i...

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“Less The Bitters” by Amanda Song

Submitted to Contest #233

She’d lasted ten days. Daisy plodded slowly against the packed throng. She wasn’t going to drink — she really wasn’t. After seeing what a “liquid dinner” did to her colleagues—Carmella always had a bottle in her desk and Jeff couldn’t hold a conversation without holding a glass—she had brazenly declared her New Year’s resolution was to go sober. But there was a certain hopefulness that she only felt staring into the velvety depths of a glass of cabernet. The only way she could escape the hell of their nine-to-five that usually extended well...

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