topic: MONEY medium: CONVERSATION “Ya gotta really teach your children well these days…about money and finances and all that. Ya gotta be honest with your kids from day one. I remember tellin’ my two sons one day, after movin’ into this new apartment: “Now boys, if anyone asks you, ya […]
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: CRIME & PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT A large palm tree stood near the entrance of the garden. Beneath the tree was a vast carpet of flowering plants, but there were gardeners of an Indian or Pakistani origin busily transplanting the small white flowering shrubs for a similar red flowering […]
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 […]
topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Listen to the Story! I should have known it would end like this. Him: world famous; me: unknown, forgotten… well, whatever. Que sera sera. I just want to have my side of the story told, draw a line […]
topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT, AUDIO This story was shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Listen to the Story! I arrived at my grandmother’s on New Year’s Day to find books piled up in the bath, tin cans arranged in snaking lines on the kitchen floor and children’s toys decades […]
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: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Listen to the Story! Alright, Princess ? Gurgled the man as he shifted his weight and pressed his upper body against the bar, a roll of man-boob spilling onto its surface, trapping a coaster. “Naav another pint of […]
topic: CRIME & PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as shared at an event themed “Royalty” I’d watch out if I were you- they don’t take kindly to strangers around here- let me tell you that,” said the man sitting in the hanging cage at the crossroads. “I’ve been here for three days […]