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[READ: December 1, 2021] “The Moon over the Mountain”
This year, S. ordered me The Short Story Advent Calendar. This is my seventh time reading the Calendar. The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar is a deluxe box set of individually bound short stories.
As always, each story is a surprise, so you won’t know what you’re getting until you crack the seal every morning starting December 1. Once you’ve read that day’s story, check this link where editor Alberto Manguel is providing daily commentary on each of the stories he selected for this year’s calendar.
Li Zheng was a low ranking soldier who was a poet at heart. But no one agreed that his poems were worth publishing. After some time, he grew tired of the rejection and fled his family and his life.
A former classmate Yuan Can was travelling through the area. He was warned that a tiger was loose in the woods. Yuan Can was not afraid but when he neared the area a tiger raced past them. They heard a voice mumble that it was a close call.
Yuan Can recognized Li Zheng’s voice. Li Zheng told him that he was slowly turning into a tiger and related his entire story. He refused to let Yuan Can see him until he was far away.
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