Allison Zhang is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. An immigrant and bilingual speaker of English and Mandarin, she writes about language, inheritance, and survival. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Midway Journal, Vagabond City Lit, SWWIM Every Day, and Stone Circle Review, among others. She is the author of An Everlasting Bond, honored by the BookFest Spring Awards and the International Impact Book Awards.
At the edge of the yard, a blue tarp flutters like a trapped lung. Beneath it, the hull of a boat half-built, its ribs pale as driftwood. My father sands cedar planks, resin clotting amber on his fingertips. He never speaks of the island he left— just corrects my hammer grip, says: Measure twice. Wood remembers every mistake. Tide pushes… Read more →