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I just remember so many pebbles, gray ones, covering the grass. The figures who laid them came in waves, long and dark, gnawing at the...

An unassuming silver band around my pointer finger. My grandmother ushered me into a little jewelry shop near her old communist apartment...

When I was little, I knew we were different. Not only because of my parents and their thick accents, but because of the lines they drew...

Coming to Australia was, at most, a dream: one of my first dreams as a young girl, when I was trying to resist the communist regime. We...

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings." -Lao Tzu Droves of immigrants press down the gangway of the SS Marine Tiger...

We lose if we don’t understand what makes us different. “Who will pick you up?“ his voice echoed. “No e-entiendo.” I stuttered, looking...

My seventy-five-year old mother can be quite stubborn when she gets an idea in her head. "Someone has purposely closed the polling booths...

The war was a daily part of me as I sat on the rooftop with my brothers watching the tracer bullets screaming across the blackened sky. I...

I cherished all the things you’d expect of a childhood in Vancouver — the yearly cherry blossoms, Whistler, the forever verdant Stanley...

An English name. I’m always met with surprised expressions when I tell someone I don’t have one. My mom likes to jump, telling them my...

As I rummage through the refrigerator for ingredients: pork, bok choy, salty pickled olives, and heat vegetable oil in a wok, I get an...