LOVE & HEARTBREAK Matthew Seamus Fantsy grew up in a leafy neighbourhood of Boston. His parents were right off the boat, they had come to America like so many generations of Irish before them. Their brogues became softer and softer with the rising tides of their real estate business. And […]
topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Listen to the Story! I should have known it would end like this. Him: world famous; me: unknown, forgotten… well, whatever. Que sera sera. I just want to have my side of the story told, draw a line […]
topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT, AUDIO This story was shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Listen to the Story! I arrived at my grandmother’s on New Year’s Day to find books piled up in the bath, tin cans arranged in snaking lines on the kitchen floor and children’s toys decades […]
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: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at an Event themed “Great Expectations” Road turns white. View of world tilts, the world at 45 degrees, or…? Blackness. Obfuscation. Brother, where art thou? In the hospital, realizations that there will no ensuing realizations, the epiphanies have already come, but they’re not […]
topic: LOVE & HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at an Event themed “Great Expectations” Get to know Diego better by going Behind the Story During full moon nights she is never able to sleep. On those erratic nights, which might well happen more than once a month since her calendar […]
topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT This story was shared at a PenTales event themed “Great Expectations” Listen to the Story! It was, without a doubt, the best jam he had ever tasted. “In all my days and lifetimes,” he sighed, “that is the best jam I have ever tasted”. The jar […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Listen to the Story! Alright, Princess ? Gurgled the man as he shifted his weight and pressed his upper body against the bar, a roll of man-boob spilling onto its surface, trapping a coaster. “Naav another pint of […]
topic: CRIME & PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as shared at an event themed “Royalty” I’d watch out if I were you- they don’t take kindly to strangers around here- let me tell you that,” said the man sitting in the hanging cage at the crossroads. “I’ve been here for three days […]