Ling Lim

Ling Lim is an emerging poet and memoirist who lives in San Francisco. Her creative work can be found or is forthcoming in Porchlit Mag, Anti-Heroin Chic, and The Hooghly Review, among others. She is interested in exploring issues on immigration and belonging in her writing. She is also a designer and an athlete.

My Too-Big Dog

You  are  too big for my apartment.  Too big for my life.  That was what people told  me  anyway. People  say  that  I  should  just  get  a  small dog,  like a  yorkie,  maybe a frenchie.  But  nothing too big. Nothing that requires too much. Nothing like you: a 65lb Doberman pinscher who could pull  a  sled  and obstinately eat off the… Read more →