Author

Henry Lu

Henry Lu is a computer programmer by day and a writer by night. His works of fiction have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Sips Card, Pseudopod, Fiction 365 and Eschatology Journal, among many others. He learned English by listening to the Voice of America as a teenager in Communist China.

My Mother's Shadow

My hand is in the firm clutch of my mother's, my steps timid alongside her sure stride. I am almost as tall as her shoulders. "Caroline, keep your head up," my mother reminds me. A fat man in front of a deli spits toward us to show his contempt. After we have passed him, I feel…