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. […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Cory slid a calloused finger down his hip and across the scar tissue. Even after two years, feeling it made him shiver, and memories of his brother John drifted back into his head. He’d never felt more disconnected in his […]

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Needles in my heart, spell on my mind Your powerful potion gets me every time I toss and turn, I can’t sleep at night Your kiss burns, through my dreams Here it comes again I don’t stand a […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest only connect you say i donʼt know what you mean i do know what you mean i mean i know what youʼre saying i donʼt know what youʼre saying are you saying it to me or are you saying it […]

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT I pray to whatever God exists that for one tenth. Of one second. Of my future. I will feel…about my future husband… the way I felt about Alex Giovanni. For all of freshman year. For all of sophomore year. For all of – I was convinced […]

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT   I was sitting in the hot chair of a personnel meeting with my sorority officers defending my good name from being run through the mud by some fellow jealous sisters who had claimed they saw me flash the jazz band and inappropriately kiss my cousin […]

Welcome to GOSSIP Week! Tabloids, Perez Hilton, intense acronym-filled text-versations at midnight; the only thing more  exciting than hearing something that most people don’t know (yet), is when that tidbit is about someone else. And the only thing better than that, is telling it to someone else. I am not […]