Mama runs inside to bang on the bathroom door and yell Chinese vocabulary words at me—yellow light, borrowed light, get in the car, open. I dip my head underwater so every word sounds like a vowel, oceanic and slow.
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th Street, Suite 600
New York, NY 10001
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