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.

Winner of the PenTales Revolt Contest (Get to know Andrés better by going Behind the Story) “I’m taking some apples and a melon.” “That’s a lot, Madame police!” She took two plastic bags, filled them with some apples and pulled a melon.   “Keep moving! Do you want another fine?”  Bazizi spoke […]

topic: REVOLT medium: TEXT  The wind spoke of everything; its aura of distant dust bragged of a multitude lumbering slowly towards them; its gusts, like a hum and a ha, rising high and subsiding low, pinched their nostrils with the unwanted stench of the sweat of the horse and unbathed […]

topic: REVOLT medium: Text The border patrol guard knocks ash off his cigarette. “Close but no cigar-oh, muchachos.” A ribbon of smoke billows from his gun. A ribbon of smoke billows from his mouth. Gravity pulls the cashed cigarette from his lips, the butt falling end over end, falling and […]

topic: REVOLT medium: TEXT The facts remain: Mr. Bond lived in a Harlem apartment building at Saint Nicholas Avenue and West 113th Street; On March 5, 2009, Mr. Bond and some friends were moving a couch, wrapped in twine to keep the cushions in place; Two police officers in plain […]

Revolt Esmeralda poured, and then held the empty bottle aloft. The other crones, also swathed in black, sat in silence. The soldiers lifted their glasses. Esmeralda addressed the men. “This special vintage has been saved by our people for half a century, reserved for those fit to conquer us.” Her […]

The most amazing thing about PenTales stories is the people who share them. With “Behind the Story”, we introduce you to some of the personalities, voices, and stories behind the stories. 1. What inspired the story you submitted to PenTales’s “Revolt” contest? It was a news story published on several media about […]

topic: REVOLT medium: text Bodies lay around a young boy. Water hitting the damp and half rotten wood of the ship that was been moving across the ocean for what feels like years when in truth it couldn’t of been more then a month or two. Then stench was making […]

The most amazing thing about PenTales stories is the people who share them. With “Behind the Story”, we introduce you to some of the personalities, voices, and stories behind the stories. PenTales co-founder Saskia Miller chats with Mexican writer (and PenTales Damascus organizer) Diego Gomez-Pickering about living in Syria during […]