topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT PenTales Pick of the Day By: Tiffany J Colón This piece is a letter to a woman named Inga who somehow managed to make a very lasting impression on the narrator after just one night. Their conversation seemed therapeutic enough to throw him into […]
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 […]
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 This story was the winner of the “Monogamy” contest Get to know Becky better by going Behind the Story I huddled by the rock, the late October sun struggling to remove the morning’s chill. I leaned my head back and let the sun’s paltry warmth fall […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Well, I’m a romantic. I guess I believe in true love, as dumb as that sounds. It’s all about finding your soul mate. The qualities that each of us look for will vary from person to person obviously. But, in general, they are…well…the counterpart to your […]