Fiction based on ‘expats’ living in Asia who undergo changes many of which take them into life altering situations.
Excerpt
Ginny echoed that interpretation.”The reality is that he found you so lovely, Lisa, that he envied you. He went beyond desiring you; he desired to become you.” Ginny looked at Lisa to see if her words had been consoling and was rewarded with Lisa’s warm smile.
Lisa got out of her chair, moved over to Ginny, and embraced her. “It’s not only Jasmine who thanks you. I’m grateful to you as well for what you have taught me about myself.”
“Careful there,” said Jasmine, “you may be friends, but that’s all.”
“You don’t have to worry about that, Jasmine, Ginny is definitely not my type, but then neither are you any longer.” Jasmine flinched and Lisa reacted to it. “Oh, does it hurt?”
“It feels like I put it in a pencil sharpener. . . Now, why had I never thought of that?” He grimaced. “How it can hurt when I no longer have it is beyond me, but the doctor said that is good. He said I’m going to want that part of me to have all the feeling it’s capable of having. It’s only that it’s now been relocated. It’s no longer where it has been, but it’s now in an even more intimate part of me than ever before. He promised that day by day the pain would subside. Eventually it will reward me with the sensations I want it to have. It will have those sensations my lovely Ginny can help me to have.”
The conversation between Jasmine and Ginny was making Lisa a trifle uncomfortable. “Have you had any other visitors,” asked Lisa,”from the American School?”
“No, they don’t know me as Jasmine. They knew only a kind of weird Jasper. When I return I’ll be a new math teacher, Miss Jasmine. The superintendent, Freddy Fox, knows what I’ve done, and I expect he’ll stop by. He’s told me my job will be waiting. He’s already indicated that he’s let it be known that Jasper has been called home because of some emergency.”
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