topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! As the first notes of the national anthem piped through the still, warm air she shifted her weight from one foot to the next, an attempt to take the pressure off the balls […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT This story won the “Borders” contest in February 2010 Get to know John better by going Behind the Story He said that he came to work, not to cross the wall this time, but just to work in some of the factories along the border, and […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT T: What a terrible idea to move when you’re heartbroken. No more New York Times on your doorstep, no more cappuccino lying in the sun, no more Pakistani cabbies in the streets, no more miles of eastern beaches. Just that one feeling, the one everyone has […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT “Keep quiet, there’s a good boy.” “But where’s Mummy?” “She’ll be joining us later. She has to look after your little sister. You know how she needs her mother. You’re all grown up now and I need you to be a brave, young man for Daddy.” […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT Ba Oi!1 You see me every day. I see you peeking through the gates, regarding me critically as I return from work, getting off my bicycle, a little sweaty, my helmet on (of foreign origin, it says ‘california pro’ and is really a skateboard helmet-where I […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak”
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT The first page of the exercise book returned her stare, blank and insolent. Little squares, plotted with indigo lines, challenged her with their tiny white spaces, pregnant with possibility, daring her to fill them with the pen on the desk. It was still capped, unused. The […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! In the 1930s, just as the situation in Russia was seriously deteriorating under Stalin’s iron grip, Ella was 17 and studying at a Geneva university. The 1930s were difficult times for everyone. Ella’s […]
