topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT Ba  Oi!1        You see me every day. I see you peeking through the gates, regarding me critically as I return from work, getting off my bicycle, a little sweaty, my helmet on (of foreign origin, it says ‘california pro’ and is really a skateboard helmet-where I […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT She had never touched him before. Not as his friend, not as a woman. When she stroked his cheek it was to say good-bye but her hand began to tingle. It was an electrified tingle which made it’s way up her arm, down her […]

I remember that as a kid, most short stories I read were usually about poor and honest farmers. And a standard phrase that snaked its way into these stories was “eke out a living.” I found the word “eke” fascinating; not just structurally. When I realized its meaning, it was […]

200 million Twitter users, 500 million on Facebook, Planes, Trains and Automobiles… Everyone keeps talking about how we’re more connected than ever. But what does being “connected” in 2011 even mean? Sure we’re more connected to our phones, but what about all the other stuff: being connected to each other […]

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT So it’s the summer before my senior year of college, and I’m sleeping in the third bottom shelf of a triplex bunk bed in a hostel in Newquay, England. A smell keeps waking me up in my BARRACKS of a room. Each room is surfer-themed. Mine […]

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topic: MONEY medium:TEXT, VIDEO This story was shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet” After my parents’ divorce, our family’s house became Dad’s house. Weekends there became not normal weekends, but very exciting trips. Mom had taken our beds with her when we moved out, so at Dad’s […]

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales Event themed “Making Ends Meet” The email simply reads, “I’ll pay you three hundred and fifty dollars. Three hundred and fifty dollars.” I lie down and I think about this. I think about a three, a five, and a zero. […]

topic: Monogamy medium: Text By: Sally Jadlow, Overland Park, KS Is more than being married to one man for forty-nine years.   It’s knowing your best friend will be there to listen, comfort, console, right or wrong, good or bad.   It’s knowing he will be there with the broom […]