Kristen Loesch

Kristen Loesch is an Asian-American writer and aspiring novelist. She placed runner-up in the 2019 Mslexia Short Story Competition and was most recently shortlisted for the Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2020. She tweets @KShaoling.

HEAVENLY LAKE by Kristen Loesch

It might be June, or it might be July. I can no longer keep track of the days. It’s that halfway point of a Hong Kong summer, when the heat turns everything soupy. The days and nights run together, and the usual strictures of time and space begin to crumble. How long have I been with my British boyfriend? Long enough for him to have bought a new camera. He’s an avid photographer, one who’s always itching for a worthy subject to capture. One day he finds one: Let’s go off the beaten track, to Xinjiang, China’s westernmost province, to…

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