Grady Hendrix wrote a story for Strange Horizons, “The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu,” and realized he’d ended it too soon:  “In the story, the trash pickers of Guiyu work for local Chinese companies who exploit them to the hilt in order to squeeze every cent from their labor. The big bosses are one part factory owner, one part gangster, which I think is accurate. But I left the issue there, and that’s where I failed. It’s like I wrote a story about Dahomey and Oyo slave traders competing to sell their enemies into slavery at Porto Novo on Africa’s West Coast and I ended the story before those slaves were exported overseas.”