The Year of the Woman
“She was aware of so many things, quite like they said happened to the mind when you faced death.There was no sense of premonition. Grandmother had definitely predicted death. Spirits or ghosts could do what they liked within limits set for them by the Jade Emperor, the Supreme Spirit. Presumably Grandmother was being truthful?She waited to cross. Hong Kong’s traffic ran in stupid one-way systems she could never get the hang of. She had run wild in these very streets as a little girl, helping ol...d people with their belongings, thieving, earning sums as little as the one-cent paper money, so beautifully printed (only made now for accountants worrying how to adjust their books with 0.0l of a Hong Kong dollar). Still, the lovely miniature notes had kept her alive more days than one. She had been lucky.The streets were crowded. She realised this with astonishment. She had not thought how strange weekdays would be, out in the open, wandering about aimlessly. It had been a terrible decision not go in to be humiliated by HC and Alice and Beth and Felicity, and Tony, and Jimbo Yip who kept telling KwayFay he loved her.MoreLess
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