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by
Nghi Vo
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May 3 - May 12, 2024
black fur,
an ivory toggle.
Chih
Almost Brilliant
R...
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Come eat some pounded rice, and I shall tell you what the empress told me.”
Haha simile
1st person narrator by Rabbit
Haha
the Palace of Gleaming Light,
Haha
the Emperor of Pine and Steel, Emperor Sung.
when I was ten,
they gave me the veil that marked me as one of the servants of the inner house.
the Paulwonia Hall
She was barely taller than I was at ten, and built like an ox drover’s daughter.
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Simile - triple
Simile quadruple
Quadruple simile Plus two metaphors.
She walked past with her spine like one of these birch trees,
Ko-anam Fords.
a wealth of salt,
Anh,
there never was a dress like this one again. There could never be. It is beautiful, but every stitch bites into her history, the deaths she left behind her, and the home she could not return to.
For a single faraway moment, she looked like something other than a simple servant woman,
“That is your calling, isn’t it? To remember and to mark down.”
We are taught to be content with that.”
on the ninth day of the festival, a brown carp cleared the final gate of the city’s dams and became a calico dragon.
Grandmother, I am very content.”
Chih dreamed
waiting at a breathing hole with the patience of the damned
he turned and walked away, leaving his spear behind.
Rabbit pulled up her sleeve to reveal a ropy scarred arm,
1st person narrator by Rabbit
Then they discovered her great secret, that she was only a heartbroken and lonely girl, and she became of no account at all.
accessory wives
Ka...
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she was banished south to live with the gravestone cutters an...
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Moon Lady...
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Haha
Among the gravestone cutters and charcoal burners
she saw the contempt that Kaofan had for her, and yes, even then, some of the fear as well.
Not yet.”
Haha - Yes Chih is clever. They continues to draw her out, by acknowledging their lack of understanding *as yet*.
The magery that had locked down the entire region around Lake Scarlet for fifty years had kept Thriving Fortune’s larder fresh.
How I eat mandarin oranges. Mee too.
Ue County having declared sovereignty and closed its borders.
the mammoth
the lion
Anh.
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