My mother was one of a few Koreans in an area of mostly Latinos, who worked
under the metal roof of an abandoned warehouse converted into a shopping
emporium—car stereos, healing potions, sneakers, gold jewelry, toys.
MICRO
WIT TEA
A Bad & Bad Empire
Later.
FICTION
Excerpt from Work to Do
For most of the staff, this was just a job. But do the simple math and jobs were most of the hours of a life.
MICRO
planetary rupture: Two Micros
then the explosion.
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