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December 5, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

When No One Was Sure About the World, by Yi Zhou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic…

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December 4, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Father, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant    One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens…

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October 26, 2025October 26, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

1/5040, by Cao Kou

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant   Note from the author: This story comprises seven parts…

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September 11, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Translation, Writing

Young Tide, by Can Xue

Translated by Karen Gernant   Not until dawn did the noise subside and all turned quiet. Tide fell asleep. He…

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