One Afternoon at a Seminary
“…I sat on the edge of my bed pretending to read a magazine, all the while coolly watching as she covered her sagging breasts with the limp flesh-toned bra she had bought at the vegetable market. Her panties, yellowed with age, showed a strip of elastic at their fraying waistline.”
September 18, 2007
KETUT Ayu Paramitha, a female student of SMAN (Public High School) 4 in Jakarta, was seriously reading a short story, The Afternoon Call, by Hao Yu-hsiang, the female short-story writer from Taiwan. Around her were some male students who were amused and tickled, and somewhat embarrassed. Unfazed by their reaction, Ketut continued—her expression unchanged—reading out loud the short story describing the annoying phone calls which always disturb
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