Huang Po-Chih Taiwanese, b. 1980

He said, “Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!” When the universe was flipped upside down, time started to fall. He raised his finger gun and shot down a sky full of wishes from a starless night. In the night sweat of a hot daydream, reality got thinner the more it knocked, crumbling...

〈Five Hundred Lemon Trees—Let’s Jam〉 When bottling the lemon liqueur, I grabbed some of the fragrant lemon peels from the bottom of the vat, put them in my mouth, and chewed while imagining the future they held. 'Ah! Let’s make a jam that gets you drunk!' I said to myself...