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.

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.