…Each year it would flood and all the khlongs, which were decidedly very filthy, would overflow, bringing not only the inevitable sewage, but strange looking fish, unidentifiable dead animals, and other interesting artifacts. One time I found a dead shrew, and as gross as that sounds, it was so little and cute. Another time I found what appeared to be a huge snail shell. This thing was bigger than my head. But the weirdest part wasn’t the size of the shell – inside it was the petrified mollusk body. I was sure that it had come from prehistoric times.  I would play for hours in the flood waters, which were often up to my knees. I drifted off to sleep dreaming of three-eyed fish and giant snails in the brown flood waters….

An excerpt from my latest book, The Mumachen.