Rebecca Wonsang

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Of Cats and Men” by Rebecca Wonsang

Submitted to Contest #142

The St. Augustine Library stood tall and proud under the clear blue Autumn sky. The crisp, cool air clung to the librarian's clothing and hair as she clipped her way up the concrete steps in her sensible black pumps. Flipping her coat collar up to her cover her neck, she still couldn't seem to keep the chill out. Cheeks bright pink from the cold, she fumbled for the keys to open the enormous front doors. "Today is going to be a good day, today is going to be a good day", she chanted her morning mantra over and over as she began to prepare th...

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“Little Miss Perfect” by Rebecca Wonsang

Submitted to Contest #141

Amber Lambda, or 'Know-It-All Amber' as she'd been aptly nicknamed ever since the first grade, when she marched right up to Miss Lewis and promptly scolded her on the order of the classroom books, telling her, "they're all wrong". Hands on hips, head tilted to one side, "because everybody knows that books go in 'alphabetal order!" And Miss Lewis, with the patience of all the saints combined replied, "Amber, not everybody can read in the first grade, so I put the books in topical order, making them easier to identify for little ones by the pi...

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Weaving intricate words into meaning is a privilege and a sort of meditation; a healing salve if you will. "My gripe is not with lovers of the truth, but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No, when fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard- boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. A soothing, rocking safety of a lie. " Vida Winters--- character from The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield