Mr. Chum’s strange statement got my mind off my other worries. What did he mean? And why did he — just that once — speak without any accent? His simple sentence seemed familiar somehow, yet I could not tell why. I puzzled over it in school and in the coffee shop. I started to ask him once, but I ...
I was making my way to our apartment after work and when I spotted her outside the door I thought at first it was my imagination because I had been thinking so much of Mayaro but there was no mistaking Auntie Umbrella. Although she was my father’s sister she was the total opposite of him in looks...