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 […]
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 […]
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.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
