A modern Gift of the Magi tale of a poor Hmong family celebrating Christmas and the love, sacrifice, and generosity that holds them close.Six days a week, Momma wakes up before dawn to head to the factory. She leaves three simple bowls of rice and egg on the table for her children and always returns home before their bellies start to rumble. Sister knows their family does not have much. She loves walking home and being greeted by the glowing Santa on the corner and...

Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because a hospital means police, and police mean his mother finds ou...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.Table of ContentsHalfsies – Eric Del CarloA Nightingale’s Map of the City – Suzanne WillisThe Naked Me – N. Immanuel VelezChambers of the Heart – B. Morris AllenCover art by Kaos Nest.

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.Table of ContentsLight Winds With a Chance of Velociraptors – Michelle Ann KingTrucks in Reverse – Christopher CervelloniThe Illuminator Leaves – Molly EttaOne Divided by Eternity – Filip WiltgrenThe Abjection Engine – Y. X. Acs...

The acclaimed and haunting gothic middle grade tale of a boy who must fight for his family against a deceptive wasp queen from award-winning and New York Times bestselling Kenneth Oppel is now a stunning graphic novel.For some kids, summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worrie...

Yin Yao was a lucky woman. Jiang Chen's appearance had saved her when she was about to be sold to a brothel by a debtor. He proposed that the two of them get married, and promised that they could save Yin Yao's mother, who was seriously ill. Yin Yao was forced by reality to agree. Yin Yao was an unfortunate woman. As their marriage neared, Aunt Jiang found her and said, "A lowly woman like you shouldn't dream of stepping into my house!" Yin Yao was struck by lightning. She finally realized...

A curious boy loves to daydream about the stars above. Outside adventures with his sister turn into dreams of something much bigger than he ever imagined. He dreams of many make-believe and never-ending adventures in space, which is vastly different from the world he is used to.After his space adventures, he reflects on the world in which he came from while daydreaming about the earth below.

Traces the development of new anti-LGBTQ movements in Taiwan and their interactions with the US Religious RightIn 2019, global media celebrated Taiwan as the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. However, the pursuit of this human rights milestone spurred waves of opposition to LGBTQ rights that have fundamentally shaped the nation’s democracy and its relationship with the United States. This book examines Taiwan’s anti-LGBTQ movements, analyzes their ...

The Journal of GMS Development Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed publication that seeks to promote a better understanding of a broad range of development issues of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). This journal is published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the framework of the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management (PPP), a region-wide capacity building program that supports knowledge products and services. It is directed at GMS planners, policy makers, academics,...

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without “distinction of any kind,” possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance—and even legitimacy—of domestic regimes. Yet questions remain that challenge ...

Empires Fall (Thon's Revenge) is a sweeping fantasy adventure about two boys who lose everything in a single night and rise to challenge the darkness spreading across their land.Thon and Thai return home after a routine trip through the forest and walk into a nightmare. Their village is burned to the ground, their families murdered, and the world they knew reduced to ashes. The attack was carried out by the Red Dogs, a brutal band of mercenaries commanded by a towering fire demon w...

That is how you survive in the Evergreen Circle complex. You talk fast, you move faster, and you never let them see what you are really feeling. For Kao, a young Mien refugee still learning English, Sacramento in the summer of 1995 is not just a city. It is a battlefield where cultures crash together, loyalties are tested in blood, and the line between making it and losing everything comes down to one wrong roll of the dice.Kao is not a gangster. He is a kid who got dropped into a ...