My Black Rice connection--

The Black Rice connection.

My cousin, the late U Min Shin, winner of the 1962 short story collection prize in Burma, was the eldest brother of Ko Too, on whose life experience Black Rice is very loosely based.

Once I changed his skin color, everything in the story changed, thus only the in the jungle execution, and the Delta ambush (based on a real one also, in which Uncle Cho's son-in-law, U Wa Maung, a navy officer, died)

are real.  The rest is all fictional fabrication.

Here are the links where you can buy print or Kindle editions of Black Rice and my other recently published short stories.

1.    No Crib for a Bed and Other Stories, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JW2ZD40
No Crib for a Bed,  print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4768879?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
2.    The Lovers, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4767856?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
3.     Black Rice, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4232789?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026Black Rice, Kindle Editionhttp://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520
4.     Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird
My two stories, Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird are also available on Create Space, print edition.  Published by Words Sounds and Images--

A seven year old girl is sent off across the border to earn a living and send money home to Burma.  A computer expert finds--

https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=K+Kaung+dancing+like+a+peacock&sitesearch_type=STORE