topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In May, 2011 PenTales Storytellers gathered to share perspectives on “Borders.”

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT What happened to Chelsea on Sunday? First she got arrested for running on to the field at Pac-Bell Stadium after the Giants game (in SF). She was led out in handcuffs and served a summons to appear in court. Then she went over to […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT 32 years of life on this planet and what do I have to show for it? I still haven’t had one successful relationship with a woman. I can’t even say with certainty that I’ve ever even dated a woman. They’ve all been little girls. […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest Little of the early morning light penetrated the church. At each of the pillars of the nave, candles sat either side of a simple altar. Their light fell upon the monks saying their daily mass, white surplices over their black […]

topic; CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest I thought this morning of the three of us. I put us together again—our faces, our books, our bells—on that African train. I thought of the three of us again, three different people funneled into the cauldron that was Idi […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Listen to the Story! He ghosts along the border, spiriting those who cross over. Seven is his number. He looks so serious and haloed. They say he coyotes in an old pick-up. The wheels are spokes of boots, turning. He’ll […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest When I reach the corner he is there, smiling. As always, he has appeared from nowhere. He waits for me to approach; I cross the street and walk straight into his arms. It is the same corner, the same encounter: […]

topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT “Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed.” –Booker T. Washington “Freedom is more than crossing a border; freedom is a journey of the heart.” […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call 11 / 9 Where I come from the month comes after the day so when I see, hear or read 9/11 anywhere it makes me sad that America, the most insular country in the world, has such far reaching […]