A Haunting Story of Nature
The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and save the day.
Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: a Masterful, Timeless Thriller (set in San Francisco!)
Call me old-school, but I love going to the cinemas. From as young as I can remember, my mom would...
Darkness
Not the darkness that stars bathe in Not the brain illness that requires saving
The Tractor
The boy smiles upwards at his father, cherub cheeks and a childish grin. The man lifts the child onto his...
SF Beach
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Photography category.] In this captured moment, behold a miniature range of sand...
How Are You?
A question meant only as a greeting. A chance at connection diminished to a mere formality. In what public health...
salt
momma made the best baked fish in the world. dad fed us stories.
Divisible cities
[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...
Encounterings
Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths...
My First Patient
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.] You told me you wanted to kill yourself, to drown...