I Read Stories: Blooming by Lucy Zhang

Blooming by Lucy Zhang in Fractured

Mei turns into a flower when they touch. Mei speaks in ambiguities. She can’t ask for what she wants from the store. She has to speak around it. Our narrator thought that meant she didn’t know, but sometimes they get it wrong, so there must be a right and a wrong.

Mei turns into a flower when they touch. Our narrator doesn’t crave touch. They didn’t as a baby, they don’t now.

Mei wants to be touched. She wants to make love. She turns into a flower at every spot they touch.

Read This: Mei turns into a flower, and this is the most extraordinary thing
Don’t Read This: Turning into a flower is not actually a good thing