Kiko got Published!!!

I got one of my older stories published today in TwoFourth, which I am led to believe is run by a poetry collective.

Thanks, guys.

Fake Smiles, Fake City

We might look happy here, but we're really, really stressed out by this point. This is actually the high point of our Shenzen trip. It's a city of fakes that takes pride in it being one big fake. I couldn't stop laughing at the irony.

I also figured out that if the tour bus left me behind, there was nothing to say that I wasn't from the area, except that I couldn't understand a single word in Mandarin. I guess I look too much like the natives.

I'm not going back to Shenzen, unless they pay me a LOT of money.