Two Stories of the Japanese Occupation

Ten minutes ... twenty minutes went by, and still Mrs. Sastra talked on. Her mouth, which looked like a squirrel's snout, opened and closed like the hole in a pair of bellows. Her nostrils were as wide-open as a fish-net under water. The black hairs inside were visible, like the tentacles of a squid. As she spoke her spittle oozed between her teeth, dribbling on to her chin like snot from a child's nose

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