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"An island separated from the rest of the city by the surging water."

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"The entire community was built on marshland and landfills."

"The flooded streets looked like a large fish farm.

"The once-flourishing ballfields were closed one by one."

"The sight of the old grain terminal filled him with a deep dread every time he passed it."

THE ENIGMAS AT RED HOOK

Writer and Web Coder: Ruixuan Li; Editor: Heather Homba

The Enigmas at Red Hook is a collection of five short stories created by Ruixuan Li. Inspired from her research about the Hurricane Sandy, this multimedia work includes not only flash fictions, but also drawings, manipulated images, edited audios, and data visualizations, etc. As an assembly of contemporary folklores, a visual essay, and a multifaceted regional profiles, The Enigmas at Red Hook serves as an elegy and provides alternative readings of the neighborhood’s entanglement with that tragedy.

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Chapters

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Fishbowl

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Swallet

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The Serpentine

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Impurities

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Abyss

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