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Sanmingzhi is pleased to invite Melissa Wan, a published writer and a practice research PhD from University of Leeds looks at the writing of sex and its intersection with disability, to have a workshop of Writing Sex and Intimacy in Fiction with us. Here is an excerpt of her fiction. By Melissa Wan It was Boxing Day when my husband came back. My parents had sent the servant home with a shilling and his Christmas box, and it had grown quite dark in the front room without us realising. When at last I rose to light the candles, the flames revealed a figure on the other side of the room. It was my husband, standing beneath the bough of holly and wearing the coat which had a loose seam that I had patched at least twice before. ‘Peter,’ I said. He turned his head a fraction but made no reply. ‘Won’t you take a seat?’ He moved to sit in the armchair by the fireplace. Though he did not appear to have aged a day beyond his 32 years, he did seem taller and somehow more learned, as thou
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