S. Isabel Choi Her Prayer “You two, and my time with God, are the only things that keep me,” said a mother to her daughters. She focused on the square brass clock mounted on the wall ahead of her: 2:43 p.m. It was Wednesday, October 28, 1992. The day we waited, waited for God […]
Category: Summer 2016
Lessons – Qinglan Wang
Qinglan Wang Lessons Native Ghost I am a brash and jaded eighteen-year-old. I sulk in my seat next to Aunty Yilan on a fourteen-hour flight from Honolulu to Shanghai. It is my first return since I left for Berlin at the age of four. No one had asked if I wanted to go. No, […]
Yes, English, Birthday – Zhanna Slor
Zhanna Slor Yes, English, Birthday For months, in kindergarten, all I do is cry. My grandpa drops me off at the closest Hebrew school in Milwaukee and from the second he leaves until the moment he returns, it’s about the only thing I do. We’ve just moved from the Soviet Union, and I don’t […]
Manchester Street – Anthony Veasna So
Anthony Veasna So Manchester Street I want to give you, everyone in my audience, some words of advice. Never eat twenty dollars worth of fast food at 4 P.M. and then immediately take a nap when it is 104 degrees outside, because I when I did that, I had an absolutely fucked up dream. […]
The Day Before the Funeral – Eshani Surya
Eshani Surya The Day Before the Funeral This week, we keep four kinds of milk in the fridge. Dad drinks half-and-half in his coffee; the kids take glasses of 1% before school; like me, Mom wants non-fat for her cereal; my husband, Tom, needs almond milk, because lactose bothers his stomach. The milk fills […]
No Splash – Rudy Ruiz
Rudy Ruiz No Splash In the Hills the sun is rising and the droplets of newborn dew still cling in slumber to the freshly mowed blades of verdant grass. Twin sable palms silently step forward out of the fading darkness as the sky shifts hues like the facets of a fickle gemstone turning in […]
