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Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

Fiction

Learning To Swim

A quiet young woman's trip to the seashore yields a plethora of observations.

"Eventually her muscles warmed and Magritte felt slick and alive in the liquid sea. She turned over on her back, paddling lazily, and watched the movement of the clouds in the sky. The sea gurgled secretively in her ears."

Eileen Chong Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Jan 2010 10min Permalink