"Hungry Girls"
Cassandra Khaw
"Avoid using cameras during the Hungry Ghost Festival. The dead can be trapped there."
"Avoid using cameras during the Hungry Ghost Festival. The dead can be trapped there."
"She has been bothered by the man in the tree—another thing to add to her sense that the country, nay, the world, is going to the dogs."
"Laura hands me my coat. 'Jesus,' she says. 'I’ve not had to leave a bar because of a nutter for a while. Are we twenty again?'"
"Sunghwan opened the glass door that led from the living room to the veranda."
"The setting sun was casting silver-blue lights over the crashing surf as Caleb landed the helicopter in the courtyard of MacDuff ’s Run."
"Every morning when I wake up to the cries of the baby next door, I turn you on."
"It was a bad week for peace on earth."
"October 16, 1971. Bellport fire officials continue to investigate the cause of a four-alarm blaze that destroyed a three-story rooming house on Pleasant Avenue in the South End of Bellport, an area informally known as 'Petite Africa.'"
"When Pia Zimmerman retained Paladin LLC, she turned over her computers, peripherals, and passwords, as Dunne had requested."
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