Note: This is a collection of eight of my short stories, with an introduction by F. Sionil Jose. It was published in Manila by New Day Publishers in 1982. Except for “Dots and Dashes,” all the stories appeared elsewhere originally, in such journals and magazines as Solidarity, Bridge: An Asian American Perspective, Amerasia Journal, FOCUS,…
Requirements: 3M Setting: Three chairs in Dr. Beatrice’s office. She is a marriage counselor, and the three men talk to her in different combinations–sometimes individually, sometimes in alternating groups of two, sometimes all three together–but Dr. Beatrice herself is never seen or heard. Early August, late 1980s. Plot: Three men, twenty years apart in age,…
Requirements: 14 characters played by 4F, 3M Setting: The action alternates between an office and a classroom in a midwestern university. If possible, platforms and a limbo area can also be used for the various flashback sequences. Plot: David Lee, a Chinese-American writer teaching in the English department at a midwestern university, is at a cross-roads…