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Marko Fong lives in Northern California and published most recently in Solstice Quarterly, Memoir (and), Brilliant Corners, Eclectica, and Grey Sparrow Journal. His fiction has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.

Macro-Fiction

Digging All the Way to California

Issue No. 176 ~ January, 2012

Like other twelve-year olds, the emperor has a taste for the unusual. A flock of geese fly overhead. It's a common enough sight in this part of China, but these geese are harnessed to a kite the size of a rice field. Thirteen eunuchs hold up a canopy that covers the emperor's sedan chair to keep their master from being bombarded by the offal from the geese.