Tammy Ho Lai-ming, aka Sighming, is a Hong Kong-born and -based writer. She is the editor of HKU WRITING: AN ANTHOLOGY (March, 2006) and has had creative works published in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, New Zealand, Thailand, India, Macao, Australia, USA, Wales and Britain.
More at www.sighming.com.
WHY SHE LOST HER BOYFRIEND
AT AGE TWENTY FIVE
Mysteries she couldn't stand. That woman used to be his subordinate co-worker but not anymore. Why then was she still
writing him bland e-mails and closing them, one after another, with 'Love'? And who was this friend of his? She toured Thai
beaches every other month and came back
with such boasting tales like ornaments
on a tall hat. Distances she couldn't
stand. The space between one phone call and the next must not exceed sixty minutes. Intimacy, if too little, she couldn't stand.
She needed to feel his gently snoring throat or bulging chest when they slept on the same bed. He preferred being galaxies away.
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THE NEWS
The news leaked out from the big mouth of yours.
How you shut tight all the windows and doors In our house; but never your mouth: and thus Whenever something happened to us, Our friends cheered loudly or judged in silence.
This time it was not domestic violence,
Mutual cheating or an unpaid phone bill.
Not a misplaced pillow nor a bad chill.
"Something worse", you said, and shook your head.
"My wife is crimson, dead, dead, in our bed!"
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