Peony P.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

Stories (3)

3 Stories

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“A Dish Served Cold” by Peony P.

Submitted to Contest #52

Erica thought he was dead. She had watched him die, had felt for a pulse and not found one. There he is though, right across from her on the street. He’s smiling, discordant with her last memory of him. Erica pushes the image of his bloodied face out of her mind and hurries into the coffee shop. The line takes forever, and by the time she’s ordered her usual—a chai latte with an extra shot of espresso—her heart rate has returned to its pre-caffeinated normal. She takes her time drinking her latte. She sits in the corner of the shop, listenin...

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“#0378” by Peony P.

Submitted to Contest #49

I sit, staring listlessly at the matte gray metal of the space station wall. It’s difficult to tell time so many light-years from the star on which the human calendar is based, but I’m confident in my assessment that it’s the middle of the night. The fluorescent lights overhead buzz dully, bleaching the room and lending a sense of liminality to the proceedings. My fellow intergalactic travelers wander aimlessly or slouch on uncomfortable benches. They’re quiet, for the most part, too exhausted to create much of a ruckus. Even the man that ha...

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“Lady Luck” by Peony P.

Submitted to Contest #48

Your odds of being struck by lightning in any given year are 1 in 700,000. Your odds of being killed by a tornado are 1 in 5 million, although those odds rise to 50 in 5 million if you live in a mobile home. Not even probability is free of classist influences. Your odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 60 million—much lower than your odds of dying in a car accident. Your odds of winning the lottery depend on how many people are playing, but they hover around 1 in 300 million in most cases. What if you could change those odds? Not just for ...

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Author bio

Peony is a lover of all things books.