Chia Qin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2021

Stories (2)

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“Power Out” by Chia Qin

Submitted to Contest #92

It’s 7pm. The train station is extremely crowded. Everyone is rushing around, some rushing to get home to spend time with their loved ones. Everyone is in a hurry. Then lightning strikes and the lights go out. The trains stop working. For a split second there’s an unusual silence in the air. Disbelief and shock paralyses the people. Then comes the hysteria as some of them start yelling and shouting. There’s an announcement coming from the loudspeaker “Please keep calm while we attempt to restore the power. In the meantime, all train services...

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“The Occult” by Chia Qin

Submitted to Contest #90

“It’s still hard to believe that a nutrient block like this can give us the calories and other nutrients needed for a single day given how much we work” I lamented to Bennet, my tagged work partner as we chowed down our ‘lunch’, a tasteless brick the size of a fruit bar yet packed with the nutrients of three meals. Me and Ben had been friends since we were born, hell we were more than friends I guess. We worked together, ate together and even lived together in the same district. We were partners in this shitty world.  Both of us wer...

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Author bio

Sometimes I come here to write stuff. I decided to attempt short story writing in order to increase my skill level at writing and also to dabble in something I previously have not done before.