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I have 35 stories published in
3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 24901 times
and 15 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Tony Scanlon
My collections
My stories
The Nuns of Shwedagon
The Nuns of Shwedagon A clipping: from Shwedagon pagoda young Buddhist nuns file past the camera out into the heat and chaos of Rangoon. Their robes are palest coral and deep amber;
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- 433 reads
Silence
Silence In this clattering city, where the head swirls in the constant surf of sound – raised voices, the hollow rattle of heels on escalators, car-horns clamouring in demented chorus -
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- 618 reads
From Po Wah Yuen
From Po Wah Yuen On the other side of the world, on the other side of the day my black-haired love is sleeping. In a city without a name, in a house without a number
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- 571 reads
In the dark on the end of the line
In the dark on the end of the line my woman is softly sobbing, like a child lost alone in darkness, wounded and comfortless. I have cut her with my casual anger and cannot withdraw the words,
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- 447 reads
Evening Ferry
Evening Ferry I watch her board, my black-haired girl, leaving me once more for the family that is not hers, but swallows her youth in their service. When she leaves me
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- 663 reads