Social — Lamulu Pakawyan

ká-sióng, from the Taiwanese romanization of 假想, which means make-believe, imagine, hypothesise – derived from 假/ ká meaning 'false' and 想 'sióng' meaning 'thinking', so 'false thinking' / imagination / hypothesis – is the latest series of new translations from Strangers Press. 

ká-sióng 5:
Social by Lamulu Pakawyan / tr. Colin Bramwell & Wen-chi Li
 
"Your body landed in a strange, theatrical posture beside the longan tree in front of your house. You were found, resuscitated, and sent to the intensive care unit. Your score on the Glasgow Coma Scale continues to drop."
 
A woman has fallen off the roof of her house in what was either a drunken accident or an attempted suicide and now lies in a coma. Over the course of the next seven days, the unnamed narrator watches over her while tracking the comments the incident has attracted online.