2024/099a: On the Fox Roads — Nghi Vo

2024/099a: On the Fox Roads — Nghi Vo

The cops came through sometimes, collecting the eyes of gas-station attendants and diner waitresses, and the best way to get your eye back, Jack told me later, was to empty it straight out into the dirt...“The law says they can only take one, but it don’t say how good your eye needs to work when they give it back.” [p.11]

Two bank robbers, known to the press as Chinese Jack and Tonkin Jill, travel American small towns during the Great Depression:( Read more... )

2024/099b: Mammoths at the Gates — Nghi Vo

2024/099b: Mammoths at the Gates — Nghi Vo

At Singing Hills, we deal in memory. The things we remember last as long as we do and longer. The thing itself, well, it goes away. It breaks. It sinks to the bottom of the river. It dies or leaves or is lost. [p. 71]

Cleric Chih returns to their abbey, Singing Hills, to find the eponymous mammoths at the gate, and their beloved mentor Cleric Thien dead. These two facts are not unrelated. ( Read more... )