"I wasn't really doing anything. I need to talk with my friend about the assignment that's due soon," I responded, at the same

time covering the speaker of the phone, so my friend couldn't hear my fuddy-duddy Yeye. After finishing talking on the phone, I

looked around the living-room. There was a carpet, hand-made by my grandmother, in the center of the living room. Right on it

was a little coffee table. On the wall there were most of the pictures of our ancestors. Some dressed in Qing dynasty's clothing.

Nothing luxurious in the room except for one picture of Yeye and his comrades. Most of them died during the war. He took

good care of that picture and washed the frame at least once a day, but I always thought that Yeye neglected all the other stuff

in the house. They needed to be cleaned, too.

There was a slight light snaking out from the gap of the kitchen door hitting Yeye's bedroom door. It assured me that Yeye was

still in his asylum. He always yelled out behind the door, like the phantom of the house. In his eightieth year, he still had the extra

I changed my clothes and went to bed. I rolled from one side of the bed to the other, like sausage fired on the grill. The feeling

immediately, then I heard, "You have no reason to talk on the phone so late, and now you slept on the sofa. Sooner or later

running shoes were still under the coffee table. So I decided to go in myself. First I opened the door a little, so I could see Yeye

It was in the middle of summer; muggy weather depressed me. My eyes were half way closed. I lay down on the sofa. For

not fall off onto my head. Similarly Yeye's love held me so tight and steady, because he wouldn't want to see me falling. I knew

Victory was in my hand, triumph had finally arrived. Should I eat ice-cream for celebration?

not sleep, I decided to get up early. "If there is a man up there, please make it as easy as possible," I prayed as I stood in front

made with wooden sticks from eaten popsicles. So when the fan was on, the plane would circle around above the sofa where I

A couple days after the funeral, somehow I looked up to the ceiling again; the spider web had invaded the fan totally. Those

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