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Yuetting Cindy Lam

Ma’s Cactus

Fiction by Yuetting Cindy Lam

While I am tweezing the first of three cactus needles stung into my right shoulder, my teeth furiously biting into a small rolled-up towel I’ve put in my mouth, I feel more certain than ever that Ma’s expensively exotic plant …

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