Tita EvaMarie
Digital Photography, 7" x 10"
Lauren Compean is an alum of Midwestern State University; her work first appeared inVoicesin 2018.
Conversation with my Grandmother
Duncan Wu
You shot members of the Kuomintang point blank, strangled traitors, fought in the Guangzhou rising of ’27. You rose in rank, commanded a Red Guard squad comprising the best. You swept through buildings like a ghost, through oneiric cityscapes, slaughtering enemy agents. Five decades on, your most important duty, while watering the amaranth on the roof of your hotel, was to speak in English a sentence then unclear but which I recall and which compels me as it echoes now: “Listen to me: when time comes for me to vanish, disappear, remember this—you’ll find me now, back here.”
