As Abe stared blankly at the suited, faceless men and clutched his umbrella to his chest, all he could think to say was to tell them that there was no smoking in his apartment. Even without faces, they looked skeptical for a moment, but they conceded and stamped their buts out in a silver ashtray […]
Prologue of ‘Hector’s Theodicy’ As Abe and Luna delve deeper into their forbidden #romance, no matter what it costs. Dark forces look on disapprovingly. See what happens next…
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Countless generations and several great filters later, we find ourselves in a more current age. At this time, it so happened that a waitress at a club had caught eyes with a big shot stock broker and they conceived a baby boy in a private room. Being a poor Cuban immigrant, Remedios was stuck with […]
In the beginning, was the Word. The Word was alone. In the infinite, unknowable place before time existed, the Word existed and it was the only existence. The Word knew nothing other than Itself because there was nothing but Itself. The story begins here. The story ends here. This is the only story that ever […]
After ten days touring Germany and Switzerland with a chattering group of Chinese middle schoolers, I needed a vacation from my vacation. Kids are great, but sheep herding is pretty tedious work. They got on a plane to go back to China, and I slept in. The plan initially was that an English friend of […]
Romance really is what you make it, I suppose. I spent a lot of my life sipping from the romance Kool-aid, and I’ve gotten pretty shitty on it in my time. The stuff is genuinely intoxicating. The idea that we are all part of this universe that is ripe with meaning, and as humans, we […]
Yeah, so I’m not dead. I just really fell of hard writing the blog about this time last year. I went on break to Beijing, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Sorry that I got a little distracted. Then again, it’s not distraction when you come back to school and you don’t continue writing to your […]
To round out this really terrible day, we were in tow of my all but lost adviser as he shuffled us around Shenzhen according to a plan that were not privy to. After setting our unknowingly unemployed South African friend up in her sham apartment, we doubled back to meet up with Cockney Guy. He […]
Again, I woke up before six. Again I headed out to Pingshan with no promise of anything fruitful coming out of it. I came armed with a book of pronunciations and a full shirt and tie, with a cup of coffee as my guide. I was on my own and needed to take the hour […]
So I don’t die in Hong Kong, I find my adviser, meet people just like me, realize that we’re going to make it through with the power of friendship, happily Chinese ever after, right? Well, in the short time that I’ve been out here, we expats (cool name for western foreigners) have a saying for […]
