No promotion./ Human resources say cicada not human./ Need no resources./ Tok Tok Tok!” Viewers see only Cicada’s human supervisor’s back he can’t even be bothered to turn around to look at his employee. Cicada is a loyal company employee, and Tan paints with deliberate strokes the rumpled folds of the insect’s suit, his clip-on identification badge, and the back of his green head in a gray office cubicle. Like the stories in Tan’s Tales from the Inner City, this fable stars a creature who interacts with human society but stands apart from it-or, in Cicada’s case, is excluded from it with stiff-necked contempt.
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