topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” Contest Listen to the Story! He ghosts along the border, spiriting those who cross over. Seven is his number. He looks so serious and haloed. They say he coyotes in an old pick-up. The wheels are spokes of boots, turning. He’ll […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Connected” contest When I reach the corner he is there, smiling. As always, he has appeared from nowhere. He waits for me to approach; I cross the street and walk straight into his arms. It is the same corner, the same encounter: […]
topic: NEW FRONTIERS medium: TEXT “Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed.” –Booker T. Washington “Freedom is more than crossing a border; freedom is a journey of the heart.” […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call 11 / 9 Where I come from the month comes after the day so when I see, hear or read 9/11 anywhere it makes me sad that America, the most insular country in the world, has such far reaching […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I was just waking up when the phone rang. A friend’s daughter was breathless on the other end of the line. Her parents had left for work moments earlier, and she was almost out the door for the school […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Journal Entry – September 14, 2001 I drove to Mailboxes, Etc. to send my contracts back by FedEx yesterday morning and was reminded that we live in a different world now. “Ma’am, you might as well save your money. […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call The day terrorism crashed into the minds of Americans is still vivid in my head. I was in middle school at the time, and we received an announcement that a tragedy had occurred. We were herded to the auditorium […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call New York to London It was just a normal office day, eating a sandwich at my desk ahead of a busy afternoon. ‘You seen this?’ Justin asked. I turned towards my colleague. ‘What?’ He had BBC News up on […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Supporting her around the waist, I helped my Rebecca to the hotel toilet. A plastered, broken foot was the reason for her incapacity, the result of misaligned floorboards in a Tudor period hotel. While sober! My locum pharmacy work […]