Susanne Lee

Susanne Lee's writing on subjects such as mixed race children, Tiananmen mother Ding Ziling, surrealism & sausage in Spain, menhdi in Delhi, basketball in Lhasa, Hong Kong Cinema has appeared in the Village Voice, The Nation, Konch, Giant Robot & SLAM. "Letter from Hanoi" appeared in the Spring issue of Konch Magazine. "Vol de Nuit" appears in PowWow: Short Fiction from Then to Now, edited by Ishmael Reed & Carla Blank (DaCapo) and "Chungking Masala" was a runner up in the Guardian Openings Contest. Susanne Lee was born in Los Angeles and went to Belmont High School where her counselor told her she should learn to type at the junior college across the street from where she lived. She thought her advice was useless and went to UC Berkeley and Harvard instead. She worked as an international business girl in the World Trade Center, but she couldn't stop telling stories.

The Sandy Diary of Susu Aisin Gioro

In a flash, I went from living in a neighborhood of $15 grilled cheese sandwiches, $19 meatloafs and $400 skin creams to a developing country with cold water, no electricity and waiting in line at a public park for dry ice from the electric company and to charge my phone from a CNN truck. And I am one of the lucky ones. I have a roof and windows.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 18, October 2018

Clomid Dreams

She shifts to her side. On her thighs are tiny marks, the size of pinpricks, her battle scars. Faded but still visible are the blue Xs on her ass that her husband Steve draws with a blue marker he uses as a guide for the hypodermic he uses to give her the injection with. According to schedule, he fills her with the cocktail and afterward, full of medication that is supposed to make her ovulate, it begins. That night like all the others these days, with the invading chemicals swimming in her, she suffers psychedelic Clomid dreams.

Issue 17, September 2018

Susanne Lee

Susanne Lee's writing on subjects such as mixed race children, Tiananmen mother Ding Ziling, surrealism & sausage in Spain, menhdi in Delhi, basketball in Lhasa, Hong Kong Cinema has appeared in the Village Voice, The Nation, Konch, Giant Robot & SLAM. "Letter from Hanoi" appeared in the Spring issue of Konch Magazine. "Vol de Nuit" appears in PowWow: Short Fiction from Then to Now, edited by Ishmael Reed & Carla Blank (DaCapo) and "Chungking Masala" was a runner up in the Guardian Openings Contest. Susanne Lee was born in Los Angeles and went to Belmont High School where her counselor told her she should learn to type at the junior college across the street from where she lived. She thought her advice was useless and went to UC Berkeley and Harvard instead. She worked as an international business girl in the World Trade Center, but she couldn't stop telling stories.

The Sandy Diary of Susu Aisin Gioro

In a flash, I went from living in a neighborhood of $15 grilled cheese sandwiches, $19 meatloafs and $400 skin creams to a developing country with cold water, no electricity and waiting in line at a public park for dry ice from the electric company and to charge my phone from a CNN truck. And I am one of the lucky ones. I have a roof and windows.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 18, October 2018

Clomid Dreams

She shifts to her side. On her thighs are tiny marks, the size of pinpricks, her battle scars. Faded but still visible are the blue Xs on her ass that her husband Steve draws with a blue marker he uses as a guide for the hypodermic he uses to give her the injection with. According to schedule, he fills her with the cocktail and afterward, full of medication that is supposed to make her ovulate, it begins. That night like all the others these days, with the invading chemicals swimming in her, she suffers psychedelic Clomid dreams.

Issue 17, September 2018

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