Zala’s Reviews > Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng > Status Update
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”Another Father Thomas is standing in the opposite doorway, a mirror image of the one she’s walking toward.”
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— Dec 17, 2025 02:00PM
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Zala
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I knew this would happen after that phone call, but still, poor guy😔
— Dec 21, 2025 05:30PM
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”In a strange way, Cora feels bad for Harvey. Most people don’t know how easy it is to end a life. In video games, you can swallow rounds of bullets before going down. But in real life, bodies are delicate. Skulls pop open like biscuits, bones shatter beyond repair, torrents of blood rush from a small wound.”
— Dec 17, 2025 11:27AM
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“Ghost chair,” Auntie Zeng says. “For your uncle.”
“You hated my uncle,” Cora says, but she switches seats all the same.
“That’s why I feed his ghost,” Auntie Zeng says. “I had enough of him in one life. I don’t need him haunting me in the afterlife.”
— Dec 17, 2025 10:47AM
“You hated my uncle,” Cora says, but she switches seats all the same.
“That’s why I feed his ghost,” Auntie Zeng says. “I had enough of him in one life. I don’t need him haunting me in the afterlife.”
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“And Cora won’t have answers because Cora isn’t a person, not really. She’s been thinking a lot about obituaries lately, how her own would be short and impersonal.”
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“But everything sloughs off Cora like dead skin because she is not the kind of person who creates things, who makes a mark on the world. She is an echo, quieter and quieter until she’s nothing at all.”
— Dec 17, 2025 10:37AM
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“But everything sloughs off Cora like dead skin because she is not the kind of person who creates things, who makes a mark on the world. She is an echo, quieter and quieter until she’s nothing at all.”
Zala
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”Now the money is gone and there are no careers to show for it and the worst part is that they had a chance, they had a Nai Nai who paid for half their tuition because she thought America was for dreams. They didn’t have to wait tables or strip or sell Adderall to pay for college but they somehow messed it up anyway, and Cora thinks that’s worse than having no chance at all.”
— Dec 17, 2025 10:32AM
