The Red Road

[2020 "A Century of Glory" Realist Fiction Writing Contest]

"Don't be afraid, girl. We're the Red Army, an army of the poor."

"Can I join the army?"

A Hong, a village girl, was married off at fifteen. After bandits attacked her on the road, the Red Army rescued her. Constrained by the rules of propriety, she chose to enlist. In the army, she discovered that countless other people in the world were suffering and waiting to be liberated...