![]() By the time her shift began, she’d be overworked already. ![]() Every Saturday at six p.m., we’d work together. By night, she and her fiancé and a few friends ran a bar. By day, she worked at the offices of the Youth Corps. I secretly looked forward to seeing her during my weekly shift. Because of her despair, I was overwhelmed, and because of her despair, I left her. Despair was in her past and in her present. Xiao Fan was the most desperate woman I’d ever seen. It is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while at Taiwan’s most prestigious university. Notes of a Crocodile is set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei. ![]() ![]() Qiu Miaojin (1969–1995) is one of Taiwan’s most innovative literary modernists and the country’s most renowned lesbian writers. The following is from Qiu Miaojin's novel, Notes of a Crocodile. ![]()
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