My creative nonfiction piece “Flickering Little Lights” appears in the September 2015 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Cha is an award-winning English online literary journal based in Hong Kong.
“Fireflies are called flickering lights (đom đóm) in Vietnamese. As a child in the Mekong Delta, my husband saw them darting around the …” Read the rest here.
![18th century Japanese drawing of people capturing fireflies](http://www.michellerobinla.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/640px-Hotarugari.jpg)
Firefly viewing in 18th century Japan (“Hotarugari” by 丹羽桃渓 – 摂津名所図会). Children all over the world have captured fireflies, including my husband in Vietnam and myself in Minnesota.
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