Burning eyes, open wide— I could be you too, despite the tears and eyes as dry as a seahorse on an apothecary table underneath the Chinatown sky. David Ly is …
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And then I met him: worshipper of my body down on his knees, his tongue so kind between my thighs. Be my boy for one more night, his tongue insists …
My mother left me a suitcase of sweaters she knitted in mohair, wool, acrylic in blends of burnished ochre bright carmine, sombre blue, sea green. I see her now in …
To see my mother slip away— like witnessing time being reassembled, the missing hands being reattached, the frozen hours and minutes retrieved from the crumbled heap, put back in their …
There is urine on the seat again. Every time Shaohan sees splotches of his father’s urine on the toilet seat, something clenches inside him. He doesn’t have to sit there …
The boat ran out of water. She stepped out and missed the silkiness of mud between her toes. A homeland flows down cheeks crusted in sea salt. David Ly …
Part I: Planning the Rescue After much debate, the Park sisters named the mission “Operation Rescue the Squeaky Red Toy from Puppy Spa World”. An outside viewer might feel some …
i am fifteen. there are things i will often say: i’ll never date an asian guy there are things i will never say: my middle name lok-ling there are lies …
The peaks of Grouse Mountain melt, stare across a recitation; in clusters like caressing thinkers or /small /mammals in the matter the stencil of woods regressed, laid flat like the …
Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell is the author of Stumbling Through Paradise, a novel which chronicles the story of the del Mundo family, who immigrated to Canada from the Philippines in the 1980s. …