2015 Dozens of custard yellow housing blocks had replaced the single-storey colonial bungalows that had once stood here. It was hard to...

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....

1988 I looked out from our room.  “Foreigners?” I asked the boy on the other side of the concrete bed.  Ridiculous really. Only an...

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...

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...

Stranger to brother 14 hours on end Blameless and pure Against the tree Densely braided nylon Raw against the wrist A riculet of red...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

"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...

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...