topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Pho Therapy”: Anna Huddleston’s simple, funny, big-hearted story portrays two friends (former college roommates) who are divided by geography (one is in Russia, the other in Belgium) but united by Skype, man […]
topic; 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Remembering September 11th 2001 takes me back to my student flat in Germany, my washing-up, my radio, droning in a language I -frustratingly- didn’t properly understand. Occasionally a fighter jet roars overhead. My memories feel like a dislocation from […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call A 9/11 Piece After, similar words hung in the mouths of talkers. Each one like the others’ testimony; the day was uniquely bright and clear. My life had already turned partially, I had been waking earlier and was freshly […]
Winner of the PenTales Revolt Contest (Get to know Andrés better by going Behind the Story) “I’m taking some apples and a melon.” “That’s a lot, Madame police!” She took two plastic bags, filled them with some apples and pulled a melon. “Keep moving! Do you want another fine?” Bazizi spoke […]
When people think of Paris, mythical place names spring to mind: the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Musée d’Orsay, Versailles, the Eiffel Tower. In Imaginary Paris, every street corner has a view of the Eiffel Tower. Imaginary Paris exists in films, in literature, and in other people’s holiday photos. Even the […]
By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland With the PenTales Life Lessons Project we want to give 60+ years old and seniors a voice on the Web 2.0 (check out the call for stories here). I interviewed my grandad a couple of months ago, and within an hour I learned […]
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. […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest Little of the early morning light penetrated the church. At each of the pillars of the nave, candles sat either side of a simple altar. Their light fell upon the monks saying their daily mass, white surplices over their black […]
topic; CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest I thought this morning of the three of us. I put us together again—our faces, our books, our bells—on that African train. I thought of the three of us again, three different people funneled into the cauldron that was Idi […]