topic: REVOLT medium: video PenTales co-founder Saskia Miller chats with Mexican writer (and PenTales Damascus organizer) Diego Gomez-Pickering about living in Syria during pretty turbulent times.

When people think of Paris, mythical place names spring to mind: the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Musée d’Orsay, Versailles, the Eiffel Tower. In Imaginary Paris, every street corner has a view of the Eiffel Tower. Imaginary Paris exists in films, in literature, and in other people’s holiday photos. Even the […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT I’m not going to send you a white feather, Because this could go on and on, forever. This isn’t Gods war This is a man’s war What are we fighting for? No reason at all. This is not our war; this is man’s war. I’m not […]

Listen to the Story! Way up in the North there’s a big forest, and in the big forest lives a whole crowd of beautiful butterflies. Every year the butterflies look forward to summer, and when summer comes they can’t wait to open up their wings, and warm them in the […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! It was a lovely way to wake up. The rising sun poking its golden fingers through the half-closed blinds, and bathing Dave in warm dappled light. He’d had a long week, and as […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected Contest” Every morning, Fernandez and his little sister, Lee, ran up and down the road that winds from Dili to Baucau. They looked for the biggest potholes and, after stormy nights, for any trees that had fallen across the road. If […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Cory slid a calloused finger down his hip and across the scar tissue. Even after two years, feeling it made him shiver, and memories of his brother John drifted back into his head. He’d never felt more disconnected in his […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest only connect you say i donʼt know what you mean i do know what you mean i mean i know what youʼre saying i donʼt know what youʼre saying are you saying it to me or are you saying it […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! As the first notes of the national anthem piped through the still, warm air she shifted her weight from one foot to the next, an attempt to take the pressure off the balls […]