Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker

But not everyone has dreams. Some people just are, the way that trees and rocks and rivers are just there without a reason, the rest of the world moving around them.

Even when she is no one at all, just an echo of a dead person, she’s still Chinese and no one will let her forget it. That’s all anyone cares about, all anyone wants to see.