topic: MONEY medium: TEXT Mexican busboys scamper around placating women with French manicures, tattoos and fake tits. The juxtaposition is beyond comprehension and, therefore somehow works. BMWs, Mercedes, Range Rovers come and go as the valets try and look cool in the 88 degree September sun. I want and write […]

as submitted for the “Monogamy” Open Call We got home and discussed monogamy. I asked if we were. She said I think so. I told her I hadn’t been with anybody else since we started. She said neither had she. I thought I felt love but couldn’t be sure. I […]

topic: QUEER medium: TEXT Jean didn’t ask me if my mom was a lesbian today. She asked me that yesterday at work. In fact, it was the first thing out of her mouth. It almost pushed me over the edge. I looked at her with utter disgust, as if I […]

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: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Yesterday was September 11th. I know I was supposed to feel something but all I could think about was how fucked up the world was. It didn’t used to be like this. But it is now. Not to say […]

PenTales  started out as a small narrative experiment: We handed 20 empty notebooks to 20 friends, and asked them each to start a story. Many such books are now traveling the world as each storyteller passes the book on to someone new to continue their story. These are pages from […]