Yirui Tang

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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“Deliquesce” by Yirui Tang

Submitted to Contest #53

del·i·quesce /ˌdeləˈkwes/ A fancy word for melting. Or at least that's what word-enthusiast April Morow found in her favorite online dictionary. She had been looking for elegant-sounding terms to impress her teachers with, and deliquesce was just perfect for her new paper. Eyes still trained on her phone, April didn't notice that she had bumped into a tall, lanky blonde holding a popsicle. "Oi, watch where you're going!" He growled at her, lapping up the melted part of his icy blue treat threatening to fall off the stick. Even though i...

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“Princess” by Yirui Tang

Submitted to Contest #52

He was supposed to be dead. Gone. Deceased. I saw him breathe his last in the dim hospital room where he was admitted months earlier. I saw him, immaculate and pumped full of preservatives, in his white casket. The same white casket that was lowered into the ground. So then... how is he alive? It should be impossible, yet here he is, standing in all his dark-haired glory. I've got to be dreaming, right? This is the kind of stuff that usually happens to the protagonists of cheesy rom-coms. But if it i...

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