‘How My Grandma Broke Her Hip That Summer’ by Monica Wang
The woman with almost no memories
remaining climbs out of bed. She reaches
for the sliding door. In the white moonlight
pouring in through the glass she is a child
again, and outside, her mother beckons.
From issue #15: spring/summer 2023
About the Author
Monica Wang has writing in Electric Lit, Southword, Augur, and The Malahat Review, among other publications. In 2022 she was shortlisted for the W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, she grew up in Taipei and Vancouver, Canada, and spent the last five years drifting from Dresden to Dublin.
