Ronja Wang

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2020

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“BRAIN FREEZE” by Ronja Wang

Submitted to Contest #85

That’s the thing about this city, it rots you from the inside out. Slithering down your throat to make a coiled home deep in your tummy, twisting, turning, beating like an extra heart. Eleanor pushes off from the ground and she soars on the swing, eyes closed, head tilted back. Higher and higher. On the swing next to her, Katinka isn’t moving. She blinks, and an eyelash stabs her in the eye. She pulls at it, unafraid, pressing it between two fingers like a tiny fairy wing. ‘El,’ she says. Her voice is like a cough, her mo...

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“During the Dog Days ” by Ronja Wang

Submitted to Contest #50

You slide the straw between your lips and suck apple juice into your mouth, swallow it hard. It is the shaky exhalation of summer, everything painted soft and dry purple by the sun. We’re out in the backwoods, up in the trees in that little house your Daddy built so many years ago. The green paint is peeling, but the insides are worn soft, my back pressed against the wall and my knees tucked to my chest. “What do you wanna do?” you ask. You are the most beautiful girl in this shitty county, a fact I’ve always been aware of but re...

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