250,000 đồng (11/11)
2015 Dozens of custard yellow housing blocks had replaced the single-storey colonial bungalows that had once stood here. It was hard to...
Dec 10, 20182 min read
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The “Healthy Pretty” Hair Salon (10/11)
2015 Điệp had convinced me to go to a hair salon for her styling appointment in preparation for her friend’s daughter’s wedding ceremony....
Dec 9, 20182 min read
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Puppets (9/11)
1988 I looked out from our room. “Foreigners?” I asked the boy on the other side of the concrete bed. Ridiculous really. Only an...
Dec 8, 20183 min read
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Prisoner of Words (8/11)
1982 Something poetic, he said. Something that shows my love for her, he said. Vast waves I think of you and I Rocking back and forth...
Dec 7, 20181 min read
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90 Kernels of Corn and Urine for Breakfast (7/11)
1982 I should have savoured the bitter melon soup Tuấn shared with us last night. He didn’t cook it as well as Thương did. No one...
Dec 6, 20183 min read
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The Crucifixion (6/11)
Stranger to brother 14 hours on end Blameless and pure Against the tree Densely braided nylon Raw against the wrist A riculet of red...
Dec 5, 20181 min read
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Ho Chi Minh War Museum (5/11)
2015 Scheduling problems meant our cheap flight landed not in Ho Chi Minh City but in Hanoi. I knew we shouldn’t have arranged our...
Dec 4, 20182 min read
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Pickled Uniforms (4/11)
1979 From the asymmetrical frowns and the clouded eyes, I could see that a lot of us did not know why we were here, or what threat we...
Dec 3, 20183 min read
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Re-education camp (3/11)
1979 Men. Brothers. Stood side by side. For the first. In a long time. At the front stood a podium with two flags of red and blue,...
Dec 3, 20181 min read
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The Vegetable Lady (2/11)
1977 On the way home from secretly collecting vegetables on the unused farm, I swung by the black market that operated on a train track....
Dec 1, 20183 min read
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Forty Years (1/11)
"Forty years ago today Saigon fell. I wonder what my 60,000 fallen brothers would think of the country they died for if they could see...
Nov 30, 20183 min read
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Potentially Potential
The sweet pungent vanilla scent filled my nostrils as I stepped into the doors of the library. It was like a bakery in here, a bakery of...
Jun 1, 20173 min read
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