topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT   She gazed at her new born baby with love.  She heard the doctor come in and stand beside her.  Her voice bore the strain of yet another child-birth following the many years of having patiently raised her children. “I hope you’ve done what […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Foreign Affairs” Listen to the Story! As the first notes of the national anthem piped through the still, warm air she shifted her weight from one foot to the next, an attempt to take the pressure off the balls […]

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “The End” “Tell me the story,” Sophie asks, her head sunk deep into her pillow, shading the sides of her face from the tiny nightlight lamp with the cheery orange shade. The blanket is tucked up tight […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty”

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT   I was sitting in the hot chair of a personnel meeting with my sorority officers defending my good name from being run through the mud by some fellow jealous sisters who had claimed they saw me flash the jazz band and inappropriately kiss my cousin […]

Welcome to GOSSIP Week! Tabloids, Perez Hilton, intense acronym-filled text-versations at midnight; the only thing more  exciting than hearing something that most people don’t know (yet), is when that tidbit is about someone else. And the only thing better than that, is telling it to someone else. I am not […]

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT Back in 7th grade, I was walking down the hall one day and heard a younger girl say, “HE IS SO UGLY.” A great blow to the spirit, especially for a young guy on the precipice of puberty. Several weeks later, I’m sick and a day […]

topic: GOSSIP medium: TEXT Its fair at times to find the most innocuous person to tell a secret—right? Secrets of mistakes of others burn until shared. The incredibility that she could have said that or he could have done that, and how it could possibly be true is like staring […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “On the Road”