Jackie says, “Chinese food is supposed to mix together on the plate.” I know him as Dave but he says he is Jackie.
—in Vestal Review (2005)

My mother’s face looms in front of me, just as I last saw her, in court: dark-eyed, angular, a femme-fatale beauty. It’s the face I was heading towards, when I left ten years ago—the face that I have tattooed, scarred, and reshaped until it’s mine.
—in Strange Horizons (2005)