Shikha Dhawan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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“Lola and the Angry Little Wasp” by Shikha Dhawan

Submitted to Contest #127

When I was a young child, I spent a lot of my time in this little garden. Well, it was less of a garden and more of an overrun weedy parking lot. No, that would be too generous to call it a parking lot. It was an overgrown wooded area where my father liked to park his precious yellow Lada. Don’t know what a Lada is? It’s a Russian car that went out of fashion as soon as it was in fashion because it was so poorly built in the Soviet communist times. Or that’s what my father tells the family all the time. But it was bright yellow, and it was ...

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“Not a Moment Too Soon” by Shikha Dhawan

Submitted to Contest #126

She couldn’t believe it was the end of the year already. She had thought this year would never end. Rekasha was sitting in a café in her home city on a solitary table outdoors, staring out blankly at the city, walking by in a rush. She was cold, but she would rather be here all by herself, than inside the café with the crowd of noisy people. She wondered if disasters truly came only in threes. She hoped that they did. She had already experienced more than what she had thought she could ever handle. It was enough to make her quit her job,...

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I have been writing short stories and other fiction since I was 12 years old. I love to write, read, and write some more. I hope you enjoy my writing. Thank you for the support and likes. You can check out more of me at HTTP://themillionairehippie.com.