July 4th Fireworks
[Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Have you ever seen fireworks in broad daylight? Often associated as a nocturnal sighting, I was mesmerized to hear them implode above us on July 4th, 2020.
Introspection
Often, I used to drop by to ask a patient of mine about his mood, and one day he just...
The Infinitely Big in the Infinitely Small
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The typical existential thoughts of a graduate student drifted through...
apricots & shallots
I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...
Hannah the Ghost
The buttercream needed something. Raspberries? George stirred a spoonful of jam into the bowl and re-tasted. Much better, he thought...
as we made to leave the bagelry
Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. we moved through the sentence of the crowd, its fork-plate...
Behind Their Wheels
Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...
The hammer (an epilogue to the impostor)
Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...
gutenburg discontinuity
the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.
A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...