Horror Nights
I adjusted the strap of my carry-on, my palms sweating against the leather.
For months, my nights had been consumed by a flickering screen and the voice of "Zaw." He was charming, poetic, and promised me a side of Myanmar that no tourist brochure would ever dare to print. My friends had staged an intervention. They showed me articles about the "Pig Butchering" compounds in the borderlands, stories of Americans lured by romance only to be shackled to computers, forced to scam others under the threat of physical mutilation.
"I trust him," I had told them, my voice trembling with a conviction I didn't entirely feel. "He’s picking me up. I’ll be safe as long as I’m with him."
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