In the fall of 1920, the first cars came to the islands of Shanqui Jian and to the streets of the Walled City on the…
Three voices. One literary house.
Month: January 2026
Mei’s journey to the Walled City began when she was sixteen, on an old Riwoche with solid knees and a pleasant disposition. She remembered hating…
Marty’s expression never changed as he reached into his school-uniform suit-jacket, pulled out a miniature flathead screwdriver with black tape across the handle, and held…
Caroline worked hard for the limited respect her colleagues afforded her. She was a proud woman, an accomplished geneticist and a competent chess player. At…
Lynn, number 108, because that was the number of times she had died, threw her arms wide to the friends, fans and patrons who had…
Melvin Hawthorne pulled his old teddy bear close and gave him one last hug. He had received the dreaded call. His so-called stepfather, Ankh, was…
In 1909, a year after Mei Lubaba left her father’s farm, slavery was officially abolished on the archipelago near the East China Sea that Mei…
Eleanor folded at the waist to whisper to whisper in her grand-nephew’s ear on his sixth birthday. The church was packed with people, and the…
The sun, relentless and unsettling, slipped slowly behind the horizon beyond the walls of the walled city that had once been Wichita, Kansas, now home…