Shannon Lamb

Writer's Biography

Shannon is a 25 year old Native of nowhere. The daughter of a military man, she spent most of these years moving throughout the United States. Since graduating from the University of Delaware with a degree in Sociology, she has backpacked Europe, and taught English in both Prague, Czech Republic and Hunan Province, China. This summer she will volunteer in Ecuador for one month before returning to school for a Masters in International Relations.

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Hauhau, China: "Why am I here?" - Story by Shannon Lamb
- 4th Online Issue

The aroma of unfamiliar vegetables and meat grilled on an open flame, cesspools that haven’t been cleaned, fish dried, salted and hung for sale, wrestle to dominate the scent in the air. In the distance I hear the rambling sound of an approaching train, the muffled voices of children speaking a foreign tongue, I see aging men practicing ancient traditions, the faces of youth and all their ambitions. I close my eyes, a prolonged moment— I open them again.

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