topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO In October 2010, PenTales Storytellers gathered to share perspectives on “Making Ends Meet.” One of the stories was Pippen Wigglesworth’s “How Not to Make Ends Meet.”

topic: MONEY medium: TEXT Mexican busboys scamper around placating women with French manicures, tattoos and fake tits. The juxtaposition is beyond comprehension and, therefore somehow works. BMWs, Mercedes, Range Rovers come and go as the valets try and look cool in the 88 degree September sun. I want and write […]

as submitted for the “Monogamy” Open Call We got home and discussed monogamy. I asked if we were. She said I think so. I told her I hadn’t been with anybody else since we started. She said neither had she. I thought I felt love but couldn’t be sure. I […]

topic: QUEER medium: TEXT Jean didn’t ask me if my mom was a lesbian today. She asked me that yesterday at work. In fact, it was the first thing out of her mouth. It almost pushed me over the edge. I looked at her with utter disgust, as if I […]

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT What happened to Chelsea on Sunday? First she got arrested for running on to the field at Pac-Bell Stadium after the Giants game (in SF). She was led out in handcuffs and served a summons to appear in court. Then she went over to […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT 32 years of life on this planet and what do I have to show for it? I still haven’t had one successful relationship with a woman. I can’t even say with certainty that I’ve ever even dated a woman. They’ve all been little girls. […]

topic: HOME medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Home Sweet Home” Event My family used to go on holiday to a farm house every year, for two weeks in the rural Portugal. The sea was not far away, you could smell it in the otherwise sun scorched air. My siblings […]

topic: EVENT medium: PHOTO

There’s an old saying that goes, ‘you can never go home again’. This may mean the bookstore that you spent your childhood in was replaced by another Trader Joe’s, or, maybe those sweet old neighbors moved away after 30 years. These types of changes are sometimes hard to bear when […]