topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT “Love doesn’t exist. We are animals. Nothing but hyper-intelligent animals. Too intelligent, if you ask me. But we’re not as aware as we’d like to believe. We play tricks on ourselves in the name of survival. Self-abnegation for self-preservation. Don’t you see? This is […]
topic: MONEY medium: CONVERSATION “Ya gotta really teach your children well these days…about money and finances and all that. Ya gotta be honest with your kids from day one. I remember tellin’ my two sons one day, after movin’ into this new apartment: “Now boys, if anyone asks you, ya […]
LOVE & HEARTBREAK In this moment he lost the fear, the anger, the sadness. He looked on as Reality slipped away from him and dissipated into the wet air. The downpour, gnawing and searing, an acid consuming the flesh, left nothing but the inside out. The pure, the true, the […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as read at a PenTales event themed” Foreign Affairs Into the behemoth I shudder against the sickening whimper of morning’s cold, clods, stuck to my insides. Glancing around, a casual drawing, the passengers simmer as the mothers button up and challenge the world’s gaze. […]
LOVE & HEARTBREAK In the middle of a dinner that was billed as a quiet meal with a distant old family friend, his mood suddenly shifts. He takes on a serious tone: “I dreamt of you last night.” I laugh nervously and he continues: “You were standing on a hill, […]
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 […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! “I think it’s best if we adopt the “tracing paper” approach – that is, applying a sheet of tracing paper to your letter, and writing my answers on top. With one of those […]
topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT I was hoping to think of something inspiring and uplifting, something that would change your world. Yet the truth is, change is scary. Yes, it is a beautiful, essential part of life- what would be the point of living if everything stayed the same all the […]
