Nancy Batty

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“Elephants and Goats” by Nancy Batty

Submitted to Contest #242

When they first met, she had been studying a bas-relief in the southwest corner of the quincunx at Angkor Wat. At a certain point, she realized that someone was studying her just as intently. Argh, she thought to herself. Not another tourist who was going to ask her to explain the carvings. Funny how American tourists, in particular, assumed she was Cambodian in Cambodia, as they had assumed she was Chinese in Taiwan: her appearance seemed to evoke an indeterminate Asian archetype. Never mind that she was of Vietnamese, French, and Dutch de...

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Teacher, traveler, writer.