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Ted Kwan

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2024

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Heart and Blood

Ted Kwan

Submitted to Contest #298

The formal dinner had just ended, and the waiters were swiftly and silently clearing the last of the used cups and dishes from the tables as the guests engaged in polite small talk. As Henry listened to the conversations around the dinner table, he found that his mind was distracted, unable to focus or follow anything that was being said. ‘This is it’, the young man said to himself, ‘I’m nearly there. In a short time, I will be done with the initiation process and I will be in the Circle.’ The opulence of the ballroom that they were in im...

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Why There's Never Hunger in Hell

Ted Kwan

Submitted to Contest #297

It was just before midnight and the bar was almost empty. Sam the barman was not busy as there was only one customer seated in the far end of his bar, who sat alone nursing the remains of his glass of bourbon and had been doing so for the last hour.Sam didn’t know the old man’s name, but he was an occasional customer who was over the last few weeks beginning to graduate to having “regular” status, so Sam was confident that it was only a matter of time before he would not only learn the guy’s name, but he was also going to get to hear his lif...

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Proposals and Propositions

Ted Kwan

Submitted to Contest #296

Life changing events that have the potential to totally upend a person’s life normally never arrive announced. So, seismic occurrences like traffic accidents or lottery wins are always complete surprises. For Lisa it started as a regular Monday of the last week of the tax year in her accountancy office. In other words, it was a time of frenzied activity; chaotic shuffling of files; shouting at secretaries, support staff and messengers; and of running in circles between taking sips of cold coffees over empty pizza boxes. At about 3.15 pm th...

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The Enchanted

Ted Kwan

Submitted to Contest #295

Andy stood over Cassandra’s open casket and surveyed her pale white face for the longest few minutes of his life. The traffic accident that had ended her life unexpectedly had not affected her beauty at all in Andy’s eyes.In death, her face was a shadow of what it was in life. To Andy, as he looked down at her lifeless features, the face he was looking at did not look anything like the person he had known all his life. The figure that lay in the casket did not resemble Cassandra, the girl who had charmed and captivated him for the last three...

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