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Huina Zheng

An Ordinary Mother

Mom, I hated crystal dumplings, but you made them when you were too exhausted to cook. I expected to repay you by listening to you and getting good grades. When I had Lan, I resolved to be a good...

A Recipe That Tastes of Home

Lan looked at her cell phone in a daze. She wanted to ask her father about his mood and how he had slept recently, but she was distant from her father. Lan called her father and said she couldn't...

Sprained

Several days after I sprained my ankle, my left foot still hurt, and the bruises looked worse. My elder sister's 15-year-old daughter had an affair with a man named Chen and lost her fashion...

A Ring of Pain

After I miscarried, I had to hide in the trunk of my husband's delivery van each time family planning officials came, but the doctor said it would be healed within a week. A few years later, my...