A visit to a Chinese home boggles the imagination “Excuse me. Where is the bus stop?” asked a middle-aged Caucasian man who had stepped into the shabby auto repair shop. The mechanic […]
Jia (Home). A short story
Let the sunshine in. A short story
A foreigner turns a Chinese girl on, a bit hastily, to LSD “It’s so cute!” she said, fingering the little rectangle of paper with the image of a joker, like a Barbie […]
The hickey. A play in one act
An orally induced tattoo has consequences for the woman administering it Characters: ANTHONY, a young American English teacher QINGQING, his student, a senior English major Setting: The foreign teachers’ guesthouse of a university […]
Reset. A play in two acts
A sexbot needs returning to the shop for recalibration Characters: DAVIS ROSE DAYINA CUSREP 1 CUSREP 2 Setting: The future. Beijing, China, 2064 A round stage encircled by a sloping wall depicts […]
Injaculation. A short story
A hermaphrodite explains the Tao As the Spring Festival crowds eddy around the souvenir stalls and game booths in the Temple of the White Room’s main yard, others queue up as far […]
Lust & Philosophy (ch. 1): “I first saw her one spring day on my way to afternoon coffee near People’s University”
China, Beijing, Haidian District. Beijing Foreign Studies University lay along the northern bend of the West Third Ring Road before the expressway veered eastward to become the North Third Ring Road. You […]
Lust & Philosophy (ch. 2): “To seize the event, lock its meat and bones in my jaws and relax into the thing”
“Can we go to Rexall’s today, Mom, can we?” ’Cause the drugstore on Chicago Avenue and Main Street has tons of plastic model battleships. I’m collecting them. I want to get them […]
