The Greenest Gecko: A Tor.com Original
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After an unusual public incident in which the frail, elderly president is revitalized, geckos are now considered to bring good luck. At the Ministry of Merit, Fon is secretly in charge of building the next Gecko Cannon for the family of president of Bankim’s eightieth birthday. She is honored to be assigned this duty and works diligently to create and deliver this extraordinary machine.
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Ploy Pirapokin
Ploy Pirapokin was born in Thailand and raised in Hong Kong. Her work is featured and forthcoming in the Bellingham Review, the East Bay Review, the Griffith Review, HYPHEN Magazine, Asia Literary Review, the Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong, and Transfer Magazine. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing Fiction from San Francisco State University where she currently teaches.
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The Greenest Gecko - Ploy Pirapokin
The legendary Gecko incident occurred on the president of Bankim’s seventieth birthday. After his first heart bypass surgery, thousands of President Pranit’s loyalists flocked to the hospital and held up homemade cardboard banners that read: Happy Birthday, Sir
and Long may you reign!
They gasped when their Guiding Sun Rays’ security guards wheeled him down the exit ramp. His Excellency, in his wheelchair, was nothing more than a skeleton of his former self; his once full face now thin; patches of white hair clung to his scalp; and his hollowed complexion brought tears to many of his citizens’ eyes. Murmurs spread through the crowd that he was near-death,
and even the news reporters put down their cameras out of respect for not wanting to photograph the president in his fragile state.
While being escorted to his Rolls Royce, a gecko landed on President Pranit’s lap. A bright green, bug-eyed, common house gecko! The president let out a small yelp of surprise and the gecko started clicking, tokay-tokay-tokay, while the president’s many security guards tried to swat the creature off his Excellency’s lap. But President Pranit scooped up the reptile himself, stood up, thin arm outstretched, and watched it run off his left hand, leap onto the wall, and crawl up towards the roof. His supporters were stunned. President Pranit had been too old and frail to stand on his own, and his residence had been repurposed twenty years ago with gold ramps and bejeweled elevators to accommodate his personal vehicle. However, this revived president restored faith in his supporters, and word spread quickly about how the gecko was truly a good luck charm; that if a gecko fell on your lap it would make you stronger; strong enough to step out of a wheelchair even after being confined to one for