The Mid-May 2023 seizure of rainbow-colored Swatch watches from the brand’s Pride Collection at most major shopping malls in Malaysia,...
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) (Photo by Alisa Anton on Unsplash) For introverts, you’d think that the pandemic would be...
Sitting in the shadows of misery Unraveling imprisoned dreams Wishing I can set them free to the sky Wishing I...
and when she told her mother of the “incident” she was told never to speak of it again. Silence served...
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Who are you? What do you do? Those are the questions I am asked whenever I meet a new person....
(Audio recording by Brooklyn Riepma) Several people passed by my house this year. Many of them just passed by temporarily,...
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I handed over my watch and shoes, and we approached the turnstile where I was to enter. He supported my...
(Audio recording by Daisy Dabb) I thought it was strange that my mom called me so early in the morning....
(Audio recording by Brooklyn Riepma) When I was a child, my mother told me I’d grow up to be just...
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) I have been depressed before, and depressed since. Arguably I am always hovering at some...
(Audio Recording by Julianna Wages) I can’t even explain how much my heart ached from the pain I felt during...
The end feels so inevitable when it comes. At least, mine does. I am in my final moments, of that...
It is always difficult for me to explain what depression is and how it makes me feel. I’ve seen and...
One of a sequence presented at the Eisteddfod (a competitive festival of music and poetry centered in Wales, UK) for...
In the darkened room, where shadows silently creep, I sit alone, enveloped in solitude, as the night grows deep. Though...
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) There are so many parenting guides out there, and it is challenging raising wonderful little...
I have OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), ED (eating disorder), depression, severe anxiety, and ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder). I’ve always gone to...
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) Throughout my life, I have always been scared of being alone. I would avoid lone...
My jeans are drenched as I look at the blurred images of you. It is hard to remember your face,...
(-based on the old Indian customs related to widows; they were forcefully stripped of all jewellery upon their husband’s death,...
This piece is inspired by and thus devoted to Helena Qi Hong. Ming is sure he has fallen in love...
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) Those who don't know Italy well should know that there is no country or village...
My garden of wonders bloomed with an amalgamate of pink roses with overlapped thick velvety petals, and herbs –...
(Photo by Olga Dudareva on Unsplash) (Photo by Gary Butterfield on Unsplash) Nobody wants a toxic relationship, but they just...
One Saturday in August 2019, parents, grandparents, and children were shopping for school supplies at an El Paso Walmart when...
(Audio recording by Jordan Luz) Hi, it’s been a while. I’m sorry I haven’t talked to you in a bit....
A pandemic caused by fungal spores is the exact premise of a popular gaming franchise called “The Last of Us”....
I was four years old then. Yet I still vividly remember feeling the ground shake beneath me, the windows shattering...
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(Audio recording by Andrew Garcia) To be more alive, you have to be less shy, For, stigma and inhibition...
Attics are used for many things. Sometimes for play. Sometimes for storage. Sometimes for secrets. Too often for hiding. One...
(Audio recording by Julianna Wages) (Image courtesy of Catherine Griffiths) How often in your life have you closed your ears...
My childhood was broken up into pieces, with parts of me left in different countries around the world. These memories...
I was born in eastern France near the German border, into a large family of modest origin, all raised by...
On the morning of July 4th, 2022, I was lying in bed watching videos on my phone when my mom...
(Audio recording by Yosef Baskin) Why, I asked him, do we have to return to our dorms at dusk, like...