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A young couple escaping from China cross a river at night. A man can see into the future and wishes he couldn't. A young woman sacrifices her body to help her mother. A raven-haired woman in a red dress saves a fishing boat that is in trouble. A woman's life is told through the teas she drinks. Unexpected family connections are made, and a political activist seeks sanctuary and finds love. Mixing history and realism with myth and magic, the stories in River Crossing with Night Herons show the unique history and people of the oldest European settlement in Asia. Macau.

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Graeme Hall is a writer with a personal background in Hong Kong and Macau. He has an MFA in Creative Writing. He has won the short story competitions of the Ilkley Literature Festival and the Macau Literary Festival, while his writing has been published by Fly on the Wall Press, Black Pear Press and online. Having worked in Hong Kong for many years, much of his writing is inspired by his time living there. His first novel, On Borrowed Time, was set in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and while his short story collection The Goddess of Macau was published in 2019.

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