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: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! Amanda grimaced and scrunched her eyelids ; the words on the page had begun to slide away from each other, on sentence conveyor belts. She read them aloud, to her audience […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! When I first went to South America I was traveling on a huge truck that had been painted blue and refitted to carry gap-year travelers across the continent, spending their parents’ money […]
topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! It was the summer of my second year at university and I had four long months looming ahead of me. In search of freedom, I did what any university student would do- given […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Daniel is ten today, double figures, digital. Today he gets to game properly. Until now he has used the computer games his parents bought him, and used the Wii games with the family but from now on the […]
topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Competition While walking through a shopping mall I witnessed a blatant act of human disconnection at its worst. A business man was walking through the mall while feverishly typing some response on his blackberry. He was completely oblivious to others […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK 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 […]
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: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Apparently there’s quite a media storm. That’s how my lawyer puts it. She says I’ve divided the nation. I’ve asked my neighbour to keep all the press clippings. I’ll have to start a scrapbook when I get home. […]