Alice, Rolling Down the Mountainside.(Short Story)

From: The Literary Review | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: HURLEY, VALERIE | Copyright information

He thought of climbing up through the apricot orchards with Alice, the white egrets flying with them, monkeys nibbling rhododendron, blue sheep roaming, red pandas sleeping in clumps of bamboo. He heard flute music piped high in the air. He imagined her long hair, fragrant with jasmine. He smelled the smoke of green juniper wood.

Every morning, he went down the road where a blind woman dressed in a dirty camboy sold him an orchid from her garden. He bought a pouch of cin...

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