Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 274

How ironic -
Third personality -
Dissociative Identity Disorder -
I stared down at my trembling, paint-stained hands, and clutched at the silver necklace around my
dry throat. Faintly, the tears and laughter of Sun Wukong and the Monkey King reverberated through my
mind.
“You wanted to know who the third personality was, didn’t you?”
*
Sobs echoed from behind the cell door. The nurse turned, unsure.
“Best not to go in now,” her colleague said, blankly. “That’s Patient Sun, at it again.”
“Again?” She cast her gaze down at the medical file in her hands. “Oh.”
Patient Sun Wukong.
Condition: dissociative identity disorder.
And then, below the header, in tiny print:
Suffers from delusions and depersonalisation (out-of-body experiences). Often converses
with himself. Three known identities include the Monkey King, Sun Wukong and ‘Doctor’
Xuanzang.