Shawna Du

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2021

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“When the Lights Disappeared” by Shawna Du

Submitted to Contest #232

The sun was dying. And that means our world was too. Some people believed that the sun would explode and we'd be in the blast radius with hardly any time to feel terror in our last moments of life. Others believed that it would just turn off, leaving plants to die and begin the collapse of the food chain which would lead to the painful starvation of the populace. And the wealthy of the world, with their vast resources, made plans. They created strongholds dug deep into the ground and stocked it with technologies that they hoped would allow...

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“Breast Cancer Journey” by Shawna Du

Submitted to Contest #114

Watching my hair fall out in clumps wasn't the worst part of getting cancer nor was the surgery that took my left boob. It was the aftermath. I wondered if losing a breast meant that I wasn't a real woman anymore. Would my husband still find me attractive? Thankfully, I didn't have to worry about that for long. My Honey was great and a few days after my surgery he even admitted to having sexy dreams about me. And get this, in his dreams, I was wearing negligee but I had a mastectomy. I was shocked by this heartfelt confession, but he expla...

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Author bio

As a child, I dreamt of writing a novel where characters come alive and the reader is pulled into the story. That is why I write. Each word put down on paper gets me closer to that goal.