"Shanghai is a man, a perfect, Vitruvian man," she had told him, as she spread him, unblemished, on her endlessly expanding bed, "but you my sullen boy are still half-devil, half-child."
In a recent conversation with yet another friend, I strove to explain the frustration that lies behind the giving away of our stories to visitors to our culture.
the hole is a universe deep / and she is falling down fracturing
In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Victor Fernando R. Ocampo's "A Secret Map of Shanghai."