topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT PenTales Pick of the Day- By: Tiffany Colon Most of us can remember our very first kiss. But can we remember the first time we kissed everyone we kissed? Probably not. Nick Schonberger chronicles his experiences for us in On First Kisses. This piece […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT It was one of those moments where every detail in your past suddenly made sense and you realized that it was all just one big addiction of never letting go of the people who once came into your life and loved you then […]
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: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” John held Margot close, their bodies covered in sweat after an intense session of sex. John lovingly looked at Margot, her eyes closed, ready for sleep after the workout they had both just had. […]
topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT With her feet bare and the street steaming, I imagine Vera standing outside the railway station, on the day she turned her fate around. Her departure was not about going somewhere, it was about leaving behind what was hers. It was a typical day for […]
topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT It was the first Christmas Eve I had ever been outside Iceland and away from my family. Alex and I were driving up to Vermont in the Subaru Outback she had inherited from her father. I had never been up to Springfield to see where Alex […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” It was 1987. a Swiss boy named Simon knocked on our door. He was 5. His family just moved to the neighborhood. his mom and dad were both newly appointed foreign correspondents to the […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” You were in a dream I had. I was buying candles for Chanukah at a supermarket and they huddled in a molten grey lump at the bottom of my shopping cart. The front wheel […]