I recently returned to Ajijic from a trip that saw me in the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. The front half of the trip was a family affair – there were eight of us total, and it was a whirlwind. Together, this cumbersome machine descended on Southeast Asia to visit another family member, based in […]
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VASSA Part 2 of 2 That night, Phúc had a dream. He stood at the edge of a lake and looked out at the mountains on the horizon beyond. He felt the coolness of the mud as it pushed between his toes. As he stared into the distance, something in the bottom of his vision
Part 1 of 2 The old people, the ôngs and the bàs, with their crooked backs and etched faces, they said the lake was haunted. If you went to the lake at night, they said, the spirits would call you down. You could gaze into the moon-shimmered water and see them there, the white, twisted
