Hoa Pham

author, playwright and psychologist

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    • Lady of the Realm
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    • The Other Shore
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  • Short stories
  • Books
    • Lady of the Realm
    • Wave
    • The Other Shore
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Quicksilver

Quicksilver‘There are girl ghosts,’ said Marion. ‘They’re called quicksilvers. Like mercury.”Don’t you ever want to smash things?’ said Marion. ‘That’s what quicksilvers do. Girl poltergeists.’

A girl poltergeist. Thinh liked the idea – the idea of having a ghost that could break things and interfere with other people.

For Thinh, Viviane, Marion and Becky, Q is their shared secret, an outlet for the monotony of school life and the pressures at home.

Q wreaks all sorts of havoc – writes phoney love letters, makes prank calls, floods school toilets. She leaves a trail of chaos whereever she goes – not to mention her trademark ‘Q’ on windows and mirrors.

But Q can’t help you when your parents break up, you start failing at school, and no one cares about you, or your problems.

In fact, sometimes Q only makes things worse – much worse.

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