My short stories from the Burma-Thai Border

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

My short story collection-

Dancing like a Peacock & Koel Bird, also includes Little Transparent Fetus Buddha.

Print (soft cover) + Kindle editions

http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Peacock-Bird-Border-Stories-ebook/dp/B00JWZSL3C

Facebook taking over the world--

Crunch the numbers--FB is now almost as large as China in population--

http://time.com/facebook-world-plan/

Just posted on Yangon Stories--

Just posted on Yangon Stories--

Decided not to go to Rangoon as suffering from macular degeneration, therefore everything I see will be mashed up in the middle. 
Bwa ha ha.

KMKaung
12-6-2014

favorable reviews for my novella Black Rice--

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520

My alt Christmas stories and links--by KMKaung

My alt-Christmas stories and links--

have a dark X'mas--:)

About the author:
K.M.Kaung started writing fiction as a teenager in Burma.

She comes from a family of story tellers in Myingyan in Upper Burma. Her paternal grandmother May May Gyi, saw the last king of Burma - Thibaw, taken away on a steamboat on the Irrawaddy River by the British in 1886.

Kyi May Kaung's father U Kaung was named after the King's first envoy to the West, Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung.

Her father was a well known educationist and the first chairman of the Burma Historical Commission.

As a child Kyi May was privileged to have noted scholars and artists come to visit the house.

Dr. Kaung holds a doctorate in Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her work has been previously published in anthologies and literary journals, and she has read widely in universities and bookstores in N. America and Southeast Asia. From 1997-2001 she had a poetry and political commentary program on air, broadcast to Burma/Myanmar. Edward Albee praised her two act play, Shaman, and she has won Pew, Fulbright and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants.

This is her first CreateSpace publication.

Upcoming are a full length novel Wolf, and a novella, The Rider of Crocodiles.

You may find her on her blog
http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com

on Facebook
www.facebook.com/kyi.m.kaung
and at Kyi Kaung@kyikaung on Twitter.

Her web site is
www.kmkaung.com
She divides her time between N. America, travel in Asia and on cyberspace. Links to my recent publications of novellas and short stories.

1.   Originally published in Wild River Review on line, The Lovers is the story of a ballet dancer from Chile, who has to leave her native land for political reasons, and emigrate to Philadelphia, in America.
Burmese-born author Kyi May Kaung lived many years in West Philadelphia while pursuing her doctorate in Political Science.
The Lovers has vivid local color while traversing the uneasy life of political asylees. The Lovers, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4767856?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
The Lovers, Kindle edition
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lovers-Novellas-K-M-Kaung-Kaung-ebook/dp/B00JX8NZRU
2.   Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.
Black Rice, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4232789?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
Black Rice, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520
3.   The Rider of Crocodiles
Dr. Kaung was traveling in Thailand when a colleague told her his great great grandfather was not killed in Ayuthia in 1767 when the Burmese invaded, as he knew how to ride crocodiles.
https://www.createspace.com/4738699?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
print edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZ6W8I6
Kindle edition
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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

My short story collection-

Dancing like a Peacock & Koel Bird, also includes Little Transparent Fetus Buddha.

Print (soft cover) + Kindle editions

http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Peacock-Bird-Border-Stories-ebook/dp/B00JWZSL3C
5.  FGM—Kindle edition
FGM: A Story about the Mutilation of Women.
Dr. Aset, a trained gynecologist with several post graduate American degrees, lets herself be drawn into an inappropriate
relationship.

My novella FGM is now available on Kindle--http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ3FUOE

there is also a print edition on the CreateSpace/Amazon store.

https://www.createspace.com/4738586
6.  Dealing with death and old age in the USA as immigrants--
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

Union Station, DC--copyright Kyi May Kaung (KM Kaung)

Union Station DC--by Kyi May Kaung--from my novel Solo Woman Traveler--

I don't drive in the USA, and so places like Union Station (photos further below) are full of memories, not all pleasant.

I don't "live in the past" but as I am writing my memoirs now, I use things like photographs to remind me of the past.

At first I came to DC from Philadelphia via Maryland, near Laurel, where Joe & Scallion Shoot lived.

From their home they drove me into town for my first visit to the National Gallery, to see Turner's The Peacock Room at the Freer, to the Old PO building.

I can remember everything, from what they said, to the reproductions of the Matisse cut outs, which are still doing well at the Gallery gift shop.

Then I needed to come in by train, starting in about 1985, as the Burmese embassy in DC started to harass me and the other 5 Fulbright students.

By 1988 there were only 3 women left including me.

The terrible people at the Military Attache's office left a bad taste in the mouth, as would the radio station from hell 1997-2001.

A friend Myles Glasgow and his wife Edee Maeda helped me as earlier The Princess had introduced me to Myles.

My other friend Yasmin and I stayed at Edee's house (Myles and she were temporarily separated at the time)

Edee made us a Japanese dish with seaweed--shabu shabu, but I apologized as all the time Y and I discussed our troubles in Burmese in stressed, loud voices verging on hysteria.

E. then dropped us off at Union Station, where the ceiling had just been restored--so it must have been 1988.

Now, 2014, it is being restored again, with inner scaffolding and nets to catch debris.

Once, about 2006, I hurried through Union Station and met Jack Healey, former head of Amnesty International, and his lady sitting near the flower planters in the main hall.

We talked of how we missed our mutual friend and colleague Z, who had left FBC when it split.

--Nowadays, my passes through the station are somewhat happier--

but I cannot ask the Syrian-born limo driver who usually drops me off about his country of origin or his (extended) family.

I did ask briefly as we approached the station--

"So how is your family?"

He made an unhappy sound--

"Oh--"

I quickly said, "Forget I asked you."

He pulled up at the curb, he helped me with my bags, and I paid him.

I told him to take a $5 tip, but he did not, maybe because he remembered he owed me $5 from last time when he did not have change.

I hurried into the station.

Copyright KMKaung

12-5-2014

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DC Union Station--all photos copyright KMKaung

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Domesticated turkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_turkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_%28bird%29

Raising turkeys organically--

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Animal-Care-Turkeys.pdf

kabya ah tu
faux poem
kabar in ahr a kyee sone naing gnan
ye
myo taw tee shii yar
46 htat taik paw ka ne
hlan kyii like taw
lu twe ho pyay di pyay ne
a yuu twe kya ne yaw
ngwe shar ne kya tar
thay yin par hmar kya ne yaw.
dee mo cray see ah tu
hluttaw a tu
myo taw a tu
hpaya sinn tu taun
plastic a tu
doke kha pa be.
ko naing gnan ko myo ywa
ko ko paing ain hmar
ne ya me a sarr
lehpet ta htoke pyit pay like te
thingyaing gu ma thwin hmee
hpee gyan hget pyaw thee
ta hpee
tin pay like te.
bair yoke ka soe nat ko
taing te ya hma lair?
KMKaung
11-20-2014

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   အေတာ္ဖတ္ယူရတယ္ ... ဘာရုုကၡဆိုုးနတ္မွ မရိွေတာ့ဘူး ထြက္ေျပးကုုန္ျပီ ... အဲ နတ္အတုုေတာ့ က်န္ေကာင္းက်န္မယ္ ...

   Who is the writer I wonder
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   Thanks, Ma Ma Kyi May.

  
  
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  Kyi May Kaung I wrote it, sorry I do not have Burmese script and cannot type in Burmese, but as this poem came to me in Burmese, I tried with my own transliteration, have trouble reading it myself.

   Very good indeed easily decipherable
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  Kyi May Kaung OK, then will write more along these veins, inspired by ko ko thett who is writing in both Burmese and English,

   He can type in Burmese--
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  Kyi May Kaung problem is how to put in tonal marks in English--there must be a way and professional linguists would know, but I don't--I just try to use the simplest spelling with regular English pronuciation.

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  Kyi May Kaung On FB also can't put in accent marks, and sometimes I compose on FB.

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   This is perfectly fine, I I know Burmese so I 'm able to get what that word is, thanks
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  Kyi May Kaung You're welcome, of course not intended for non Burmese speakers.

   we are living in a world of ah tu ..foods are ah tu.. hard to find ah sit..
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  I like what K P O said

  
  
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  Kyi May Kaung Pl consider this an introduction and talk to each other, my good friends--for we can all do with one more friend.

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  Thanks , that would be great

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  Kyi May Kaung I am going to copy and paste this to my blog, but cutting out your names--bc I cannot copy and paste Burmese script to my laptop either, so some things are better "saved" on line--besides it's a poem that needs wide currency.

  
  

  
  
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