topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! It was a lovely way to wake up. The rising sun poking its golden fingers through the half-closed blinds, and bathing Dave in warm dappled light. He’d had a long week, and as […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! Amanda grimaced and scrunched her eyelids ; the words on the page had begun to slide away from each other, on sentence conveyor belts. She read them aloud, to her audience […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris   Listen to the Story! When I first went to South America I was traveling on a huge truck that had been painted blue and refitted to carry gap-year travelers across the continent, spending their parents’ money […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! It was the summer of my second year at university and I had four long months looming ahead of me. In search of freedom, I did what any university student would do- given […]

topic: EVENT medium: TEXT, PHOTO It was a Royal Ceremony of sorts, a regal council just a shade after the Night of the Kings, in the damp and the gloom of a January afternoon…. One wise woman joined us from the East and visiting dignitaries from the four corners of […]

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at an event themed “Royalty” Listen to the Story!

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at an event  themed “Royalty” The bright, beautiful duchess of Aquitaine Was married to the king of the Franks, and then They went off to crusade, Coward Louis, dismayed, Was forced to come back to France again The marriage of Ella and […]

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