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: TRAVEL  medium: TEXT It was the first Christmas Eve I had ever been outside Iceland and away from my family. Alex and I were driving up to Vermont in the Subaru Outback she had inherited from her father. I had never been up to Springfield to see where Alex […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “The End” She knew it was time to move on. Iceland had lost the buzz she felt in her first years there and she had lost interest. She had certainly lost interest in learning the language or […]