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Short Stories
My first venture into creative
writing at the ripe young age of 16 was a short story
called “Summer Time at the Sea” which I put here on this
website for a number of years now. I received a high
school prize for it at the time, and was so impressed
with my achievement that I promised myself to become a
short story writer for the rest of my life.
Unfortunately, life has its own delaying twists and turns so that I
did not publish another short story again until 37 years later in
2005 with “White Lies and Silence”! Since then, I have been
encouraged to write a few more, especially by Dyane Garvey, the
executive director of Paj Ntaub Voice, the Hmong literary
magazine based in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Although most of my
academic writings have been “serious stuff”, she thinks I have a
“funny” bone hidden somewhere in my system and if I am tickled
enough, the humorous side of me would come out in my writings.
So here they are and I do hope you find them funny….. as well as
scary.
1. The Gap: poking fun at middle-age Hmong male fantasies and
Hmong history.
2. The Hunting Trip: have you ever gone hunting for porcupines at
night?
3. Working for the CIA: sleeping in the dark atop a bulldozed Hmong
cemetery.
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