Guest Posts, healing, self-loathing
My Monster
There were so many days when I didn’t know what would happen because I could never trust when my monster would demand to be fed next.
April 10, 2022Latest Posts
On Being Human.-
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Alcoholism, Family, Fiction, Guest Posts
Asylum
The room smells of ugly memories and sweaty tension, like the waiting room of some therapist who can’t leave well enough alone.
April 8, 2022 -
Family, Guest Posts, Trauma
Duality: A Generational Story of Discourse
“I don’t know what he talks about in there. He won’t let me go in with him,” my mom…
April 7, 2022 -
Guest Posts, healing, memories
The Revisionist
We find a corner and you slip your hands inside my jacket, and I murmur in agreement when you invite me to a party at a vineyard.
April 4, 2022 -
Guest Posts, Pets, Relationships
Dogs Are Better Than People
Our neighbors were woefully missing those qualities. The next day, they started questioning which dog was the attacker, never mind that their dog was completely unharmed.
April 3, 2022 -
Family, Fiction, Guest Posts
Love, Respect and Squirrels
I’m not one to kiss-and-tell, but it was perfect. Our happiness and closeness seemed to reach whole new levels.
April 1, 2022 -
Family, Fiction, Guest Posts
Overdrawn
She is 23 now and makes about ¥6,000 a month, why does she still rely on monetary help from her mother?
March 25, 2022 -
Guest Posts, pandemic, Women
The Great Resign
We are without identity. We were teachers, programmers, executives, doctors, nurses. Lawyers. They told us we could have it all, and now we’re not sure we’re qualified to do anything.
March 22, 2022 -
Family, Guest Posts, memories
Whatever Will Be
Which scene should I begin with? The time I threw coffee in her face to shut her up? Fortunately,…
March 19, 2022 -
Divorce, Guest Posts, memories
Blossom
The morning after my father announced he and Mom were getting divorced, he made everyone strawberry pancakes for breakfast…
March 6, 2022 -
Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
The Attorney – Fiction
Right now, if they suspected anything of you, all the evidence would be circumstantial. Anyone in your family could’ve taken that boat out last night.
March 4, 2022 -
Guest Posts, Politics
On Being Political, An Immigrant Perspective
This deep mistrust is still lodged inside. Not as powerful as decades ago, but enough for me to know that my personal lived experience then and now is the result of the social and political structures around me.
February 28, 2022 -
Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
Lena’s Lessons
Her violin lessons had been a part of her life from the time she was six years old until now, as a sixteen year old, when she was beginning to feel the music in a different way.
February 25, 2022 -
Guest Posts, memories
Charm School
In an early memory I’m six years old playing quietly in our family room in Kentucky when I overhear…
February 22, 2022
