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.
Life's No Less Than 32
Lately I've been relating life to dentistry and I don't find much difference between the two.
Liberation
As I sit behind the wheel, knuckles pink and white, fingers clenched. I roll my windows down, the August night...
Anatomy Lab
I got the call during anatomy lab, while holding your heart in my palms. Otosan has heart failure, said my...
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.