Paid-members only Belonging Dreamscape: Part 3 For extra safety during a San Francisco-wide curfew in the early pandemic days, we built a fort out of bedsheets, bar stools, and college textbooks. Underneath, the movie we watched was not science fiction; that would have been too uncanny.
Belonging Dreamscape: Part 2 Trust, capitalism; inner life, incentive stock options; belonging, layoff. San Francisco strings these words together, like a constellation of fireworks bursting across the bay, fragments of a dream at the edge of the ocean.
Belonging Dreamscape: Part 1 One’s twenties are absurd like that. Encounters start out as games, and one gets to play her heart out in San Francisco. But novelty fades and dreamscapes unravel.
Belonging The Boy who Played with Girls: Part 3 The past has been knocking on the psychic door of an ever-changing self and nudging me to come home.
Belonging The Boy who Played with Girls: Part 2 Beneath the surface of grades, honor badges, and track and field medals hid these clumsy and tender moments of early childhood in Chengdu. But Fangtan, the boy who always played with girls, was never clumsy.
