A ghost story that explores memory, loss, and the stories we tell about the dead. When a young teacher in 1960s Hong Kong takes her own life, she leaves behind questions that haunt a seven-year-old student for decades. This fictional reimagining gives voice to the silence, followed by a meditation on fiction’s power to offer second existences to those whose lives were cut short.
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The Day That Wouldn’t Turn: A Short Story
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.—Czesław Miłosz I got off the bus into the early dark. That particular November dusk already filled with a cool sensation. A woman stood still beneath the amber streetlight. Leaves from the trees that lined the street dropped andContinue reading “The Day That Wouldn’t Turn: A Short Story”
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