It’s your biggest decision to leave your home town. You’re in an airport, watching people and departing planes. You don’t know if your child is going to be going to school. You’re so stressed. And then you hear your name. You have to stay. This is your family. This is where you should be. This […]
It’s a sunny day so you are in the park on a bench. Suddenly a stranger sat next to you. You both look at each other and smile. The stranger starts to speak in a southern accent. “Do you like my dog?” “Yes, I do.” “I also have a parrot.” “A parrot? What do you […]
You wake up unable to say anything, but you find out how to communicate. You play the most amazing music. You learn that it’s okay to not be okay. You learn to love yourself for all your good and bad qualities. You get through an unspeakable amount of pain. You survive. You go to bed […]
Your son wakes up from a coma that you didn’t expect but hope. You sit by his side in a hospital where he might not live. You sit by his side and watch him go through another round of medications and therapies. You pray for miracles, that he will wake up one more time. You […]
For a year you thought you were the last person from your family. One day you found out missing relation. The agony is still the same. I used to think I will die first, then my sister, then my mother. I used to think we would die together. “When they said you have a sister, […]
It’s meeting with your friend at a restaurant. You open a fortune cookie. It’s strange everyone has the same note. Where did all these fortune cookies come from? In popular culture, fortune cookies are most often associated with Chinese food, especially the quickie takeout restaurants in the United States. But they also appear in the […]
You live in a future where music in any form is considered repugnant. You find an old CD. It’s scratched and falling apart, but you start playing it. The music is cool. You start flipping through your collection, and find another one. The music is cool. You find a third. The music is cooler still. […]
You hear music emanating from your neighbor’s house. No one else hears it. The volume must be extremely high, but when you raise your own, it sounds like a tornado siren. Why? The energy released by the sound of the music has travelled through a number of different frequencies. At each frequency, the receptors are […]
You and your little brother find an old chessboard in the wardrobe. Next month you come back and the piece has been moved. You suspect your father. He denies it. You suspect your mother. She denies it. The chessboard disappears and your father is moved to hospital. You are now alone in the house. You […]
In the middle of a desert, you find a well-kept map. You can’t explain how it got there, but it’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen.” At the mention of the map, Jamie’s entire body tensed. He stepped back, shielding his eyes from the sun. His face went pale, and the skin around his […]