Posts Categorized: Personal

  Let Raindrops Slide on Your Feathers   Sunny day gets dark wind blows clouds float rain starts River surface lost its peace underneath fish hear the beat ripples crowd up until raindrops become a chorus A duck in silky feathers of blue, grey and charcoal colours he doesn’t have time to find shelter but… Read more »

1  “Hong Yan! Hong Yan! … Hong Yaaaaaaaan!” Mother’s yelling finally reaches my ears through the closed door. It comes from the sitting-room where she stays. She sounds desperate and a bit angry. I guess she has been calling me for quite a while. Quickly getting up, I go to see what the matter is…. Read more »

  Uncertain Past on the Unsmiling Face (1) By Hai Bo Wang   This is the father of my father – a photo of him not photoshopped to look old or nostalgic, but rather the light brown color, like leftover green tea stains, emitting vague memories and a perplexing chagrin. Strangely, in this reminiscent photo,… Read more »

Ticket to Ride Sunny’s school ended in June, so Ou Yang decided to go visit her family in Xi’an. Actually, it was to keep her head from spinning since the big decision she made the week before: To sell the cottage and move to Vancouver. Staying in Montreal meant she had to shoulder all the… Read more »

  The Commitment (2) Ou Yang broke her commitment to her husband, yet at the same time, she strangely needed it too — the kind of commitment that suited her, a promise to which she could reasonably and righteously cling . Though it was not quite the same commitment she had imagined and expected, she… Read more »