topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Sometimes I become unsure of whether or not you happened to me. I remember finding you; much like a child comes across a particularly handsome pebble. Moving it with the tips of their shoes, examining its sharp edges and changing colors, they finally place […]
topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT “Love doesn’t exist. We are animals. Nothing but hyper-intelligent animals. Too intelligent, if you ask me. But we’re not as aware as we’d like to believe. We play tricks on ourselves in the name of survival. Self-abnegation for self-preservation. Don’t you see? This is […]
LOVE & HEARTBREAK In this moment he lost the fear, the anger, the sadness. He looked on as Reality slipped away from him and dissipated into the wet air. The downpour, gnawing and searing, an acid consuming the flesh, left nothing but the inside out. The pure, the true, the […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as read at a PenTales event themed” Foreign Affairs Into the behemoth I shudder against the sickening whimper of morning’s cold, clods, stuck to my insides. Glancing around, a casual drawing, the passengers simmer as the mothers button up and challenge the world’s gaze. […]
LOVE & HEARTBREAK In the middle of a dinner that was billed as a quiet meal with a distant old family friend, his mood suddenly shifts. He takes on a serious tone: “I dreamt of you last night.” I laugh nervously and he continues: “You were standing on a hill, […]
topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Do you know what he said? This was on the second day. We were in Lyon, and I left him for five minutes while I went to check in, told Jessie to watch him, and so she’s moping in the back of the car […]
LOVE & HEARTBREAK Matthew Seamus Fantsy grew up in a leafy neighbourhood of Boston. His parents were right off the boat, they had come to America like so many generations of Irish before them. Their brogues became softer and softer with the rising tides of their real estate business. And […]
LOVE & HEARTBREAK The bright, beautiful duchess of Aquitaine Was married to the king of the Franks, and then They went off to crusade, Coward Louis, dismayed, Was forced to come back to France again The marriage of Ella and Louis, Was annulled due to consanguinity, Protofeminist Ella Simply grabbed […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” It was 1987. a Swiss boy named Simon knocked on our door. He was 5. His family just moved to the neighborhood. his mom and dad were both newly appointed foreign correspondents to the […]