Mat Mwan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“Jane Oculos” by Mat Mwan

Submitted to Contest #62

I never knew I could feel so many jitters in my body just at the sight of a girl. Jane Oculos. She was a beauty and I could understand why I was mesmerized. Thank God my mother had forced me to sign up for this camp. I got off the bus, one foot after the other, and landed on the bare soil just outside the camp’s wooden reception office. The midmorning sun was soothing and draining at the same time. There’s always something about it that feels so good but in the long run, you notice that it makes you feel lazy. The tall trees all around us se...

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“Fear is an idea!” by Mat Mwan

Submitted to Contest #60

Many have claimed that death has a smell. Well, I’d love to correct them and say that it is dead things that smell and bring the thought of death to the edges of our memory, just about to spill over into sight, clear enough for us to see it. In fact, all of this started with an idea; a thought. Max held his daughter close beneath him as he crouched within the groove of an old eucalyptus tree. His fingers all trembled like they did when he proposed to his estranged wife. He was scared sick and he didn’t want to show it to his little girl, Da...

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“Purpose” by Mat Mwan

Submitted to Contest #59

My name is Pulchra, but they call me D. I know they love me but did they have to remind me of how much of a daddy’s child I was? If there’s anyone that’s ever shown me love, it’s that man. Where I come from …. Actually, I don’t remember where I come from. Right now I’m standing in the cold mud of a slimy pond with my backpack on my aching front. The sky is … not blue. Or maybe it is. I can’t tell. The clouds cover it and thus it would be a lie to assume that the sky above the clouds is not blue. Let me start over. My name is Pulchra Panemo...

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