Refuge #14: Ants everywhere
Previously in Refuge #13 Lady Camellia and Mother Hubbard: Josie describes how an people read and copied banned books in secret during the Cultural Revolution. Her life story...
Refuge #13 Lady Camellia and Mother Hubbard
Josie names the Western books - many French classics - that she read and copied during the Cultural Revolution. Later, scar literature evolved in China, a response to those...
Refuge #12 White Fungus
Previously: After migrating to Australia, I begin teaching English at a vocational college. My students prompt me to write a collection of refugee stories. A former Australian...
Refuge #11: Skin Names
Previously: Carmen escapes from Romania via Hungary. In Austria, she learns English while living in an Austrian pub-motel, where she lives under the protection of the UN. SKIN...
Refuge#10 Polaroid Colour
Previously: In her third year at university, Carmen realised with startling clarity that Romania had no future and she had no future in Romania. She decided that the first...