Soon after my discharge from the army, I’d gotten a job driving a pickup truck delivering supplies to a general store in a remote valley about four hundred kilometers from Chiang Mai. My boss had told me that on the return trip I would be carrying illegal ore from his buyer. This didn’t make...
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Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
“The sea is never always calm,
The sky, sometimes, not blue,
But nothing on Earth can ever change
The friendship we hold true!”
I remember fighting back tears when I wrote this poem in my best friend’s yearbook. It was the last day of school, but...
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Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
I know it is my midlife crisis, numerically – I’m 40, and in my bones; they ache.
I am hauling a 30 pound rucksack over about eight mountain crests a day, more than one a mile, on the Appalachian Trail which leads 2000 miles...
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Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
A snow-white ceiling, an electric lamp in the middle. This was the first image my eyes captured; I closed them promptly trying to catch the train of somnolence I fell from, yet, I found I could not.
I surrendered to the morning call as...
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Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
It was a cool, pleasant evening.
Birds were chirping happily and tiny squirrels were playing around. Lolita enjoyed listening to those delightful sounds of nature as she watered the plants in her lovely garden. A fresh breeze, filled with the scent of fragrant flowers,...
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Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
In 1965, India had more banyan trees than toilets across the country. Under one huge banyan tree, fifty-one tribesmen, naked to their loincloths, squatted on the ground, holding sticks in their hands for support, as if they were going to perform mass defecation...
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Short story selected for the 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
It was raining that night. A howling ambulance came to a stop with a screech. The door opened, and two paramedics got out. Their white canvas shoes splashed water on the wet street as they rushed to the back of the car and...
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