Tonight, Hanoi seems deadly silent. Perhaps everyone is mourning too.

Our leave was abrupt and happened before we could have an opinion on staying.

The Zhou famiy typically ate dinner at a rectangular table for four.

In the fall of '96, I was going through a rather transitional stage in my life.

"Who are they?" Roshni asked her aunt as she poured the chai into different cups

As if in slow motion, every eye turned to him—a stranger loitering at their fountain.

You listen for pleasure to some songs, for pain to others, Robin had said. Which was this? 

You cringe as the door opens with a loud beep, but no one comes running. 

Jill climbed the dusty, rotting steps, and her upper half disappeared into the gloom. 

He scuttled furiously from beneath the undergrowth, pausing every few seconds to catch his breath. 

When I arrive home, there are men outside our cottage. But these are not my dada's friends. 

Rice piled on my plate like a cold white ant bed. Mom adjusted her glasses again. 

As a Haenyeo, a Korean sea-woman, her day was just beginning, even before the sun rose in the bitter oceanic cold to ready herself to dive for her day's catch.