topic: MONEY medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at a PenTales event themed “Making Ends Meet” I’m happy that you all made it here tonight and am especially relieved to see so many non-liquid edibles. It makes filling my sandwich bag-lined pockets a little easier. Ha, you can laugh if you […]
topic: CHANGE medium: TEXT My mother once saw me for who I was. It was as if she had prepared herself – had made the resolution to see her child not as a part of her body but as a stranger, unconnected, with no memory of having breastfed me or […]
topic: QUEER medium: TEXT I used to try to deflect the “are you gay?” question. If I said no, I’d be lying to the world and myself. If I said yes, I’d be sentencing myself to a life of oppression. What’s a 15 year old to do? My life has […]
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: VIDEO
topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: VIDEO
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: VIDEOS Check out these videos from the PenTales Crime and Punishment salon nights in 2010. The series includes stories by our friends Carlos Velazquez, Richard Boenigk, Nicole Burdette, Hamish Allan-Headley, Toby Miller, Will Carlough, Tom Zoellner, Kate Fink, Yesim Ak, Toby Miller, Sofia Paraskeva, and Alexandra Zelman-Doring. […]
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 […]
He’s the big affair I cannot forget. Only man I ever think of with regret…” —from You Can’t Take That Away from Me VALEDICTION Although I know I only make you ripe For another woman’s harvesting, I am glad in this: I have tasted your first blush. And in our […]
