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One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.Ng YiSheng
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I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.You Jin
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As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.Ken Liu
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She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.Jeremy Tiang
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She remembered the way the damp, coarse sand had clumped to her legs and hands, and burrowed beneath her nails and into the folds of her clothes, and she had wondered why the British children in her storybooks were always excited about going to the beach–just as now she wondered why the light from the lighthouse seemed to be coming from the landward side of the expressway. “I thought a lighthouse is out at sea.YuMei Balasingamchow