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Meggie Lin

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2023

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Golden Years

Submitted to Contest #201

It was December 31st, my birthday or in other words New Year’s Eve. It seems like nothing had changed in the course of ten years. I still had my crazy addiction to ice cream, I still worked for a bookstore in Adelaide. Yeah I had got a little promotion and now earnt an extra 2 dollars and 46 cents but I wasn’t where I planned to be ten years ago in 2013.  I remember the day clearly. A cloudy but humid night. The night was like a blanket that covered the town and even though blackness was all that was visible to the human eye, wispy cl...

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Caged Bird

A family of four sitting tediously in the back of a bright yellow cab. Beads of perspiration dripped down his forehead and on Cam. Cam lay motionless on his older brother's lap counting the number of seconds that had passed. This must have been the new record for the longest traffic jam in New York City. Cam sat there annoyed that David had won the back seat while he was stuck lying in a pool of sweat. It didn’t take long for the two of them to start bickering. But who could blame them? They were only kids ( at the ages 4 and 7.) The sun was...

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