“That’s right!” Cora shouts, her voice echoing across the frozen crosswalk, words grating up her throat. “I am a fucking bat eater!” The words silence the man, a cork jammed into a bottle. Cora Zeng decides in that moment, with the whole block staring at her and headlights searing her vision and a hungry ghost looming behind her, that this is the kind of person she will be. The dirty street urchin who eats dogs and cats and bats raw, the communist spy who wants to kill Americans, the virgin in a schoolgirl skirt that will seduce him and ruin his life—all of his crooked fantasies can be true
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