Byline: Khanh Vu

Nadia

“The carefully applied lipstick drew the shape of lips over where they were supposed to be, where there was now nothing more than scarred skin.”

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Yellow Afternoons

“There were always guava and mango, grapefruit and lychee. But, above all, there was always mother.”

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Fireworks

“We were watching the same lights, inhaling the same air, and waiting for the same New Year to come, wishing the same things for our family and heading towards the same future.”

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Stars That Are Fish

“Starfish, whose name marry the sky and the sea – the opposite ends of the world, also have in them a
bit of both: the practical will to live of fish, as well as the saintly detachment of stars.”

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