The Man in the Blue Checked Loungyi - Expanded Horizons
My story, The Man in the Blue Checked Loungyi, is up at Expanded Horizons. I'm really thrilled this one's been published.
It's another story with a story.
The first draft was written years ago, when I was actually that young woman visiting Burma... and my contact and friend there was a man my father's age. What I wrote then would probably be a LiveJournal entry today, with photographs. But that was before the internet, before email, before LiveJournal. So it sat around, and I input it into Word, and it fermented into a story. After it had been decanted through a couple of writing groups, it was ready to go out.
I wash up in the bathroom down the hall, quickly tie on my sari, and hurry down the once-grand staircase. U Maung Tin has agreed - reluctantly - to take me to see the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at dawn...
You can read the rest of it here.
And some of it is true.
It's another story with a story.
The first draft was written years ago, when I was actually that young woman visiting Burma... and my contact and friend there was a man my father's age. What I wrote then would probably be a LiveJournal entry today, with photographs. But that was before the internet, before email, before LiveJournal. So it sat around, and I input it into Word, and it fermented into a story. After it had been decanted through a couple of writing groups, it was ready to go out.
I wash up in the bathroom down the hall, quickly tie on my sari, and hurry down the once-grand staircase. U Maung Tin has agreed - reluctantly - to take me to see the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at dawn...
You can read the rest of it here.
And some of it is true.