Grace Loh Prasad Album The Man in the Suit (1960) On the observation deck of Sungshan International Airport in Taipei, a young man smiles at someone invisible, revealing white teeth. His shiny black hair is newly trimmed, and his horn-rimmed glasses rest on cheekbones made more prominent by the dismal rations he received during […]
S. Isabel Choi Her Prayer “You two, and my time with God, are the only things that keep me,” said a mother to her daughters. She focused on the square brass clock mounted on the wall ahead of her: 2:43 p.m. It was Wednesday, October 28, 1992. The day we waited, waited for God […]
Qinglan Wang Lessons Native Ghost I am a brash and jaded eighteen-year-old. I sulk in my seat next to Aunty Yilan on a fourteen-hour flight from Honolulu to Shanghai. It is my first return since I left for Berlin at the age of four. No one had asked if I wanted to go. No, […]
Zhanna Slor Yes, English, Birthday For months, in kindergarten, all I do is cry. My grandpa drops me off at the closest Hebrew school in Milwaukee and from the second he leaves until the moment he returns, it’s about the only thing I do. We’ve just moved from the Soviet Union, and I don’t […]
Anthony Veasna So Manchester Street I want to give you, everyone in my audience, some words of advice. Never eat twenty dollars worth of fast food at 4 P.M. and then immediately take a nap when it is 104 degrees outside, because I when I did that, I had an absolutely fucked up dream. […]
