Archive for August, 2011

9/11 – Ten Years Later + What Do You Remember?

9/11 – Ten Years Later + What Do You Remember?

Royal Rules of Engagement by Markus, Paris

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty”

“Looking for a Reason to Get Up” by Dabbs Andersen

“Looking for a Reason to Get Up” by Dabbs Andersen

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT   I was sitting in the hot chair of a personnel meeting with my sorority officers defending my good name from being run through the mud by some fellow jealous sisters who had claimed they saw me flash the jazz band and inappropriately kiss my cousin […]

Welcome to GOSSIP Week!

Welcome to GOSSIP Week! Tabloids, Perez Hilton, intense acronym-filled text-versations at midnight; the only thing more  exciting than hearing something that most people don’t know (yet), is when that tidbit is about someone else. And the only thing better than that, is telling it to someone else. I am not […]

“Gossip” by Nick Schonberger, NYC

“Gossip” by Nick Schonberger, NYC

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT Back in 7th grade, I was walking down the hall one day and heard a younger girl say, “HE IS SO UGLY.” A great blow to the spirit, especially for a young guy on the precipice of puberty. Several weeks later, I’m sick and a day […]

“Gossip” by Carmen James, NYC

“Gossip” by Carmen James, NYC

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT Its fair at times to find the most innocuous person to tell a secret—right? Secrets of mistakes of others burn until shared. The incredibility that she could have said that or he could have done that, and how it could possibly be true is like staring […]

“What Reading about Love Teaches Us” – (what we’ve learned from the stories you’ve submitted)

by PenTales Pundit Aswini Sivaraman Have you ever done a Wiki search on “Love”? I did one a few years ago. It wasn’t a very lengthy article then. And it’s definitely not the same as it is now. I know that for a fact because apart from being bored enough […]

“Diary Entry: 1st of July, 2004” by Nina Clarke, London

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “On the Road”

“New Frontier Mars” by Shawn Badlandi, San Francisco

topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “New Frontiers”