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Memory Error
Maisonneuve Magazine, June 2023

The canvas backpack I used as a carry-on for my flight from China lies unused and broken on the closet floor of my North York apartment. When its red pockets and inner depth are at capacity, it can fit a clarinet, two binders, a lunch bag, an umbrella, a water bottle and a few handfuls of knick-knacks. I came to this country with that bag on my shoulders at the precipice between nine and ten years old, to help me transport my entire life from Jiangmen to Vancouver. It’s one of the few things I brought with me from a place I can no longer remember with any clarity.
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When suburbia is the only home you know
This Magazine, May-June 2021

The excavators were a sore sight. Each machine with its little claw dug into the earth, ripping out the vegetation that grew in place of the usual rows of corn. Just like that, another piece of farmland in Markham, Ontario would be turned to houses.

“I’ve had this for eight years,” I tell my boyfriend, dismayed, that I can’t bear losing these fields. They hold an unobstructed view of the brilliant blues of the sky. On some nights the big dipper lays low, just above the clearance of the field, guiding me home.
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