topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT PenTales Pick of the Day By: Tiffany J Colón This piece is a letter to a woman named Inga who somehow managed to make a very lasting impression on the narrator after just one night. Their conversation seemed therapeutic enough to throw him into […]
topic: MONEY medium:TEXT, VIDEO This story was shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet” After my parents’ divorce, our family’s house became Dad’s house. Weekends there became not normal weekends, but very exciting trips. Mom had taken our beds with her when we moved out, so at Dad’s […]
topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales Event themed “Making Ends Meet” The email simply reads, “I’ll pay you three hundred and fifty dollars. Three hundred and fifty dollars.” I lie down and I think about this. I think about a three, a five, and a zero. […]
topic: MONEY medium: TEXT EVERYWHERE the economist should say that wealth is the present value of one’s worth, the sum of what he has and what he owes, and always in confident speech should make clear that value is always a figure computed and not drawn. He must use always […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet”
topic: MONEY medium: VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet”
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Standing over the bridge on Puerto Madero I felt I was sailing. The bright sun and the seemingly effortlessly elevated bridge suspended me, the rippling water, the cool-constant breeze the blue of the sky tempered by the grey of the harbor. In my airborne […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” John held Margot close, their bodies covered in sweat after an intense session of sex. John lovingly looked at Margot, her eyes closed, ready for sleep after the workout they had both just had. […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT Sometimes I become unsure of whether or not you happened to me. I remember finding you; much like a child comes across a particularly handsome pebble. Moving it with the tips of their shoes, examining its sharp edges and changing colors, they finally place […]