David Lim

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2024

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“the hour upon the stage” by David Lim

Submitted to Contest #285

“What do you mean you threw it all away?!” I should’ve known this would happen, the flashing of rectangular cuts one after another on Instagram reels, TikTok, YouTube shorts, multi-camera-roll, like goggles clipped onto your nose as you watched the world live its life by seconds and minutes and snapshots of celebrities and Vogue magazines and whispers of that style on the runway that blew into a holler, a crashing storm. A wave turned roaring and unstoppable, the flood of vintage wear reimagined into all the mainstream clothing brands – you ...

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“The Niche In The Bathroom Wall” by David Lim

Submitted to Contest #259

Trigger warning: voyeurism, body shaming “…what on earth are all of you doing?” There were six of them, crowded against each other in a sea of pulsating, twitching black and brown, craning their heads to peer out of the narrow niche in the corners onto the sight below. And then there were two of us, the “scouts” as the colony would call us, emerging from our nest to look for these six runaways. Life was hard for all of us. We had to look out for each other. If any of us ran away, he might emerge dead in the form of a flattened co...

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