Helen Ko

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

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2 Stories

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“Eve” by Helen Ko

Submitted to Contest #93

The lights were beautiful. Bright and colorful. Tiny fairy lights in purple and pink glimmered like shimmering pixies hovering in the dark, basking in the warm red and yellow glow of the paper lanterns strung about the crowded lawn. People mingled beneath them, joking, conversing, and feasting. The humid night air was filled with the sound of their cheer. It terrified the woman staring at what might have been a foreign world, body frozen, half in and half out of her car. It was startling to her, this sight. The last party she had been to…s...

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“Dare” by Helen Ko

Submitted to Contest #14

Dares are for fools, and those who respond to them are doubly fools----my brother told me this on several occasions. I, being a younger brother resentful of the admitted superiority of said brother in every arena in which we competed, was not inclined to pay attention to such advice and thus, ignored it. Perched precariously atop the church steeple, I decided that he was right. I also decided that those who ignored the wisdom of elder brothers were triple fools. “Come on and take the picture already!” called out he who had issued the d...

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