when i look in the mirror i see her ghost, translucent, a halo of light around her temple. she looks like i remember her: the wrinkles around her mouth, around her eyes, which are pale, even though i know she had dark eyes in life. she is smiling, her thin lips pursed so that they [...]
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untitled story: epilogue
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untitled story: chapter 8
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Xing Xing ah, I never told you. Ni de ba ba, he always wanted a boy. Being a girl too hard, he say. Nothing out there for a girl, except trouble. I know he’s wrong, take a look at me! I come here from Bei Da because I know one day I want to have [...]
untitled story: chapter 7
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“MARIE “Do you remember our first kiss? It was by that giant tree in your front lawn, the one you said your mom wanted to cut down because it was blocking her bedroom window but like how else would people know which house was yours? I mean you know how suburbia is man. Fucking cookie [...]
untitled story: chapter 6
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Dylan, listen. I’m going away. Yeah, no, I know, I told you I’m going to China for a month, but after that I’m moving to New York. I’m gonna go to school there and live with my dad for a while. What do you mean why? I mean, yeah, he hasn’t been the greatest father, [...]
untitled story: chapter 5
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Ai ya! Ni de ba ba hen ma fan! Nothing but trouble! How you think he can pay for you to go to China? He try to make me pay! You don’t think he has that kind of money, do you? No, of course he don’t! He don’t even have money for his own ticket, [...]
untitled story: chapter 4
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Nu er zi, how you been? When was last time I see you, girlie? Why you never come visit me in New York? Ai yi Linda want to meet you! I show her pictures of you as very little girl but I don’t know what you look like anymore! How old you now, ji sui? [...]
untitled story: chapter 3
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“MARIE “Im so embarrassed that Im actually writing this but I have the biggest crush on you. I dont think youve ever noticed me in class but I hope you do I hope Im not like creeping you out or anything. I just want you to know even if you dont know who I am. [...]
untitled story: chapter 2
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The day nai nai left to go back to Beijing, she knelt down in front of me in the corridor of Dulles International and said, “Xing Xing ah, ting ni de ma ma hua,” listen to your mother. She knows best, she’s been through so much. “Ni de ba ba,” your father didn’t listen to [...]
untitled story: chapter 1
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Wo ba xin gei le ni Shen ti gei le ta Qing yuan shen me ye bu liu xia Zai ye mei you shen me qian gua Ru guo wo hai you ai shang Rang feng chui san ta Ru guo wo hai you kuai le Ye xu ba… I’m giving you my heart I’m [...]
