Hey Kris, It’s Brian B. The bookstore dude gave me your email. I was at your reading the other night.

That morning, I took my father’s watch from the top of the dresser where my mother kept it, stuffed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in my jacket pocket and ran away.

“Calculating route. Turn left and then keep right. In 1.2 miles, turn left to North Green Valley Parkway.

She remembered dancing in the desert. She remembered stars. It was a dream, but one that felt vivid and made her giddy, her head bubbly. She’d been light as wind, a part of the nightscape whispering over the hills.

@mercedesmy You guys. Can you see this? Stars are falling in #LasVegas. Like, crazy ones.

Vu Tran’s upcoming novel Dragonfish is set in the Vietnamese underworld of Las Vegas. Robert, an Oakland cop, can’t let go of Suzy, the mysterious Vietnamese wife who recently left him.