The Tears of the Dragon Girl

shrimp boat on Dianchi Lake 1 On the afternoon of the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Deputy Captain Li Yinpei of the Criminal Investigation Unit responded to a call and did not return to the bureau until dusk. He missed the department’s year-end assembly and dinner. The building was nearly empty. He wasContinueContinue reading “The Tears of the Dragon Girl”

The House with an Octagonal Tower

1 When I received the news of my father’s passing, I was in Myanmar—in Mandalay, to be exact. At the time, I was at the lowest point in my life. I had just gone through a divorce and had been fired from the company where I had worked for many years. Overnight, the robotic routineContinueContinue reading “The House with an Octagonal Tower”