1124.

And so, China came to them.

1123.

Cycling to godforsaken boon lay did not make it any less godforsaken.

1122.

In fact, it was so huge that she could hardly tell whether it was her phone or her wallet in her pocket.

1121.

Her phone was so huge that when it was in her pocket, she found it difficult to reach her foot to put on her shoe.

1120.

Some days he felt so old, as if he would never ever think a new thought again.

1119.

So she looked up an imaginary camera that he brought on his real vacations.

1118.

Doubly desperate; doubly damned.

1117.

"There are only two stories in Literature: someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." John Gardner

1116.

"We made people unhappy because we ourselves were made unhappy in irrevocable ways." Zadie Smith (Martha & Hanwell, 48)

1115.

"Better to die fat than to die skinny," she thought.

1114.

Fat women have heft. Sometimes she wanted to be a very fat woman.

1113.

Singapore sank.

1112.

Grandma — umbrella in one hand, grandson in other, a wet limp cigarette hanging from her lips.

1111.

Afterthoughts is self-referential.

1110.

And there is the conundrum: if it contains itself as an entry, then it is no longer not self-referential; but if it doesn't, then it is not a catalogue.

1109.

If she were to compile a catalogue of all books that are not self-referential, would the catalogue contain an entry of itself?

1108.

Those who don't shave themselves are shaved by the barber.

1107.

The steps to Binchang were steep, narrow and winding.

1106.

The auntie had a whole row of buck teeth.

1105.

The cash converter shop was a sad collection of abandoned hobbies.

1104.

And so she reaped where she did not sow.

1103.

It was dark. And in the dark, it seemed easier to be truthful.