In Search of Fortune Cookies in America’s Heartland

How the American spirit fueled a Chinese Restaurant

Lisa Lau
ZORA

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Image: AI Art using Midjourney

A symphony of mechanical whirring coaxed my father awake. When he looked out the window, what he saw bewildered him.

The vast wheat fields he saw from his apartment, perched on a slight hilltop, had undergone a remarkable transformation. When he arrived just the day…

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Lisa Lau
ZORA

Insomniac, knowledge thrill-seeker, leisure and cathartic writer