...Corpus of a Siam Mosquito --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-e... ...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ce. The sun was feeling hot and it made him dizzy and mad as Akhenaten in Ancient Egypt. Nawin, the legal alias of Jatupon, was feeling a weight dea... ...ance of dragons just like the television shows they had seen of the kings' ancient boats that were housed in the Royal Barge Museum. The ni... ...e run freely together through puddles on the streets and yet despite their history (regardless of it not being a particularly close relationship) Suth... ...mbs, a slight coldness toward her, and ennui from memories of his peculiar history that would impair his future relationships with girls. They sat on... ...erican soldiers in the holy land of Saudi Arabia to protect that area from Iraq's aggression and-" He swallowed hard. He knew that his brothers would... ... understanding to impress the senator. "America imposes sanctions against Iraq out of fear of its military buildup but these sanctions cause thousand...

... Tokyo To Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America By Steven Sills Book One: Sang Huin "It is prob... ...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...e bullets that she imagined from the distant war that America wedged against Iraq. Then he saw the antithesis of this: big diamond earrings dangling f... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ...in Ithaca, New York within the middle of winter in contrast to the crowds of Iraqi and American soldiers ready to ignite the deserts the way crowded r... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...