Issue 11: Nonfiction
- The Raisin Effect by Karen Eileen Sikola
FACT: The employees in food dehydration plants are required to wear metal-plated Band-Aids when they injure themselves so that in the event that the bandage falls off, it is “more likely” to be detected before the food is packaged and distributed.
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- Florida Rednecks Love Moo Goo Gai Pan by Elaine Chiew
The summer of 1989, in Tampa, a Vietnamese boy tried to take me on a date to Busch Gardens and a lecherous cook pinched my thighs and wanted to buy me a car.
That same summer, my father wrote, in formal stodgy Chinese, from Singapore, that “crucial funds” would perhaps “have to be diverted” from my college education to be put towards treating my mother’s illness. “College may have to be aborted.” Translation: I may have to go home in dishonor, not finishing what I set out to do.
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