Twelve Stories

Lily Hoang

Blue

Blue like what are your eyes? Blue like swollen oceans or blue like sullen lapis, blue like coronation marches or blue like bruised sadness, blue like nothing like mine, not a shade of same, makes for magnificence, that smallness of difference, comely and becoming—everything.

Pen

To you who will pen my life story: Do not forget the relentless reproduction of chores, always, even if this truth will only bore your readers.

Line

The line between infatuation and delusion is invisible to the eye, naked or dressed.

Plane

Desperation like mine is not plain but planed, a diagonal dangling in two dimensions.

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Lily Hoang is the author of four books: Unfinished, The Evolutionary Revolution, Changing (recipient of a 2009 PEN Beyond Margins Award), and Parabola (winner of the 2006 Chiasmus Press Un-Doing the Novel Contest). She serves as an Associate Editor at Starcherone Books and Editor at Tarpaulin Sky. She blogs at HTML Giant. This fall, she will be joining the faculty at New Mexico State University’s MFA program.