Fictional short stories that I wrote for my creative writing seminar in college. I used to stay up all night before the day of submission writing and deleting and writing some more. Thinking about it, I miss that time a lot.

It’s a Mediocre New Year
Cheryl Mui Cheryl Mui

It’s a Mediocre New Year

“It should be a simple family reunion. Me, my brother, my mother, my father, my grandmother and the dog, except my grandmother thinks the dog is my grandfather.”

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Lemon
Cheryl Mui Cheryl Mui

Lemon

She just wanted to do more each day than watch the spinach in her frying pan shrink from leafy abundance to a miserable slither of pulp.

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Unwrapped
Cheryl Mui Cheryl Mui

Unwrapped

Casting call: Looking for a family on Christmas.

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The Girl in the Dungeon
Cheryl Mui Cheryl Mui

The Girl in the Dungeon

“There’s being shy, and there’s being so deathly afraid of people that you’d rather bury yourself in toxic waste than approach them.”

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