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“Love and Heartbreak” Storytelling Event in NYC

“Love and Heartbreak” Storytelling Event in NYC

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In February 2010, PenTales Storytellers gathered to share perspectives on “Love and Heartbreak.” Stories included “On First Kisses” by Nick Schonberger, “John Held Margot Close” by Will Carlough, “Let’s Wear Burlap Sacks Forever” by Stephanie Hodges, “Lunch Break” by Mary Kate Burke, “Revisions of a Letter […]

“The Joke” by Tracie Pascoe-Lark

“The Joke” by Tracie Pascoe-Lark

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT/PHOTO  Girl walks in to a bar: Mouldy ceiling, sticky floor Broken mic, hormones galore Fluro lights, smoky faces Man in the corner dealing aces. The darkness awakens you. Now they know your name You’ve played the game You’ve built a bed in the sticky nest […]

“Love’s Apetite Unsated” by Zachary Kanin, Brooklyn

“Love’s Apetite Unsated” by Zachary Kanin, Brooklyn

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: ILLUSTRATION

“Tenderfoot” by Philip Hodges, NYC

“Tenderfoot” by Philip Hodges, NYC

Here’s Philip’s take on Love and Heartbreak.   

“Love and Heartbreak” Storytelling Event in Washington Heights, January 2011

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In January 2011 PenTales Storytellers gathered in Washington Heights to share perspectives on “Love and Heartbreak.” Stories included “Wax” by Perel Skier and “Borrowed Words” by Alan Dawidowicz.  

“32” by Atisha Paulson

“32” by Atisha Paulson

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. […]

Great Expectations by Kate Dupuis

Perhaps the worst way to deal with a break-up is to blame yourself for it. Were you not good enough? Did you do something wrong? But are these the questions you should be asking yourself? Kate Dupuis’s narrator asks these questions in the tale for today (Nov 5), but where […]

“El Carcel de amor, or, The Prison of Love*” by Olivia Salazar-Winspear, Paris

“El Carcel de amor, or, The Prison of Love*” by Olivia Salazar-Winspear, Paris

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! Amanda grimaced and scrunched her eyelids ; the words on the page had begun to slide away from each other, on sentence conveyor belts. She read them aloud, to her audience […]

“Virtually Connected” by Derek Goggin, Northumberland

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Daniel is ten today, double figures, digital. Today he gets to game properly. Until now he has used the computer games his parents bought him, and used the Wii games with the family but from now on the […]