Who We Are, Where We Go

FictionIssue 36
Written by Zhenglong Yang

He didn’t want to think about the future; for now he just wanted some money to treat his illness. Maybe he was less elastic than he had hoped. His thought was cut short by the old woman knocking over a glass.

Zhenglong Yang

Born and raised in China, Zhenglong Yang moved to America after working for 12 years as a host at a state-owned TV station. His work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly, StoryQuarterly, and Best Debut Short Stories 2025, and has received the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and 2026 Stephen Dixon Award. He holds an MFA from the New Writers Project at UT Austin.

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