Laura Wang

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“You” by Laura Wang

Submitted to Contest #81

You drape a silk cloth over your dining room table and marvel over how smooth it is, like water flowing through your fingers. You rub your hands over it and press your ear to it, listening, as if it still had a heartbeat. You pick it up again and fold yourself into it, pretending you are a fantastical king and it is your cape, dancing through the room with it, you transform into a marvelous princess, from a time long passed, exploring unfamiliar lands outside of a well-protected castle. An alarm buzzes, your first warning. You put the cloth ...

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“Next Year” by Laura Wang

Submitted to Contest #73

1 I told him to save the proposal for Valentine's Day. I told him to buy me chocolate hearts and a bouquet of roses. I told him to make up a poem about how much he loved me. I told him I wanted proof of his devotion, and he gave it to me.In his poem, he said that he couldn’t wait until Valentine's Day, that he cared too much and too deeply. That, like swans, he’d die of a broken heart if I ever left him. 2I had told him a proposal was out of the question; our love was that of the body, not that of the mind. I wanted him to show me ...

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“Welcome Home” by Laura Wang

Submitted to Contest #63

We always pick the green apples first. We go out of the cottage together with our rough straw woven baskets. Most of the straw has already loosened and is falling off, and the handle has already thinned so much that it rubs lines in my hand whenever I carry it.All of the straw has changed colour, from light gold to caramel brown, and at the edges of the basket, the edges that have been bumped and hit against stones and tree bark for as long as I can remember, dark brown spots have appeared.We walk and into our garden. The green apples a...

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