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by
Nghi Vo
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May 3 - May 12, 2024
Haha cool
Haha ouch
an angry rabbit
Haha - how does he know she’s Rabbit? Question
the laughter, never so much a presence in my life, bubbled up out of me, and I started to laugh.
Thriving Fortune
Anh
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Singing ...
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Pa...
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Haha
the more they looked, the more they wanted to look.
Lucky Sticks
T’lin
Unfashionable, of course, until In-yo sat t...
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Xao Min,
luck!
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Ah, but let’s see what you have drawn.
“Now show me you have the trick of it.
the curving syllabary
the back of the north
Erh Shi Ko.
The burn marks on the abbey’s thick stone walls spoke of many warlords and monarchs who did not wish to be seen so clearly,
an elder neixin, rich in wisdom and experience,
This was the first time they could feel such a weight of it pressing down on them, wrapping around them like a blanket of wet wool.
Simile history
Present tense
Thriving Fortune
First person narrator = Rabbit? Question
The Empress of Salt and Fortune belongs to all her subjects,
was better than the executioners’ silk garrote, at least, though the emperor’s executioners could travel as well as anyone.
Haha spooky
In her eyes, I could see the watching spirits of her dead kin, who would rather their women died than be sent south unless they went as weapons.
Sukai
Igarsk-Ino?
Ewww
We may think that the sun will never rise at midnight, but it has been known to happen.”
the tin scent of strong poison on his breath,
the war was won by silenced and nameless women,
Some ambitions must be left to lie until one is strong enough to conquer them.”
In-yo was very good at waiting,
the topic of who sat the lion throne was less words written in stone than a fortune written on birch bark.
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