A Plate of Pandemic
Published Quarterly on the Solstices and Equinoxes
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Mary Zheng is a first-generation Chinese American writer, Reiki practitioner, and social worker who has served in AmeriCorps and Peace Corps. She lives in Philadelphia, where she works in an inner-city emergency department. Her work has appeared in Wilderness House Literary Review, Cutleaf, and elsewhere. Visit her at www.mary-zheng.com.
“Oh, so you only care about your Dad? You don’t care about me? This family would be ruined if I died,” she yells, her voice quivering as it rises to the occasion, a growing wave itching to smash whatever is foolish enough to stand in its way. I am the fool, and I fight […]