Tag: creative
A silent shattering
The tinkle of a broken glass hangs in the air
Long after it’s smashed, damaged and broken
The yelling, the screaming, all the fake gleaming
Were given...
I’ve written in before to praise…
Dear Editor,
I’ve written in before to praise The Medium, and my opinion hasn’t changed. Unfortunately, neither has that of the general student population, who...
The Superintendent
My cell phone alarm clock blares. I roll over to face my bedside table and pick up my purple LG phone. I click the...
No Age: Everything in Between
Los Angeles duo No Age (Randy Randall and Dean Allen Sprunt) have made their career pushing the limits of how much noise two people...
"Title Pending"
And there they were, landed
from who-knows-what distant planet or star,
in blue, orange, and yellow.
A contagion they carried,
transferred like a bad mutation
through a deceptively benevolent...
Substance
Restless and reckless, too many close calls
In the Sahara developed a Defiance Messiah
Complex on dexedrine with brain-drain.
I’m all in with a winner’s grin, grinning...
Before and after
There are so many stories about where I have been. So many memories toying with my emotions. They press—these stories, I mean. I fall...
Talk English, Teach Good
Min Hyung, the secretary from Ivy, calls me on Friday morning and asks if I can teach an SSAT Reading Class on Saturday.
Before I...
The highway out
Favorview Garden, a housing estate on the edge of Guangzhou, China, catered to expatriates and the rich. There was a guardhouse and a gate....
Wonderwall Boulevard
Our mind is a labyrinth of emotions, decisions and memories. The palms of our hands are an intricate network of roads on an interstate...