My dark bathroom clutched me like an ancient goddess, and I tilted my head backwards until gravity became a meaningless word. I jumped up...

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.” ― Vincent van Gogh THE YELLOW HOUSE, ARLES, FRANCE. The...

I’m too young to be nostalgic. Too old to be completely still, unwilling to move. No one has ever said it to me, but I know. I know, as a...

Ina came with nothing but jeans, a T-shirt, and a diamond necklace. At least that was what she told us. My sister gasped and asked,...

Katherine was a charming, sensitive, and polite young girl who woke up early for church every Sunday. She wore lightweight dresses which...

The boy walked forward, shivering in a seemingly endless blackness. He thought he should have been somewhere else; somewhere warm and...

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think our relationship is working. I’m breaking up with you.” Surprisingly, there were no tears shed. I should...

I. It was almost as if someone always whispered into my ear - it’s kimjang time! I’d always known by instinct, when the smell of the...

James was lying on the back seat of the car with his feet outstretched. He looked at his mother through the rearview mirror to see if she...

The monitor beeped monotonously as I reach for the needle, the green zig-zagged line displaying my heartbeat slowed to a stop as I tug on...

It certainly wasn’t love at first sight. The old rickety house barely stood up on its own and it creaked in the wind. Its splintered...

I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first - among all the things that have vanished from the earth. My grandfather slammed the door...

Dear Clara, Happy Birthday, Angel! I can’t believe you are already turning 10. It feels like just yesterday you were a baby. You used to...

“She remembered who she was and the game changed. ~ “ Lalah Delia “I told you to come back home, Adanna. You’ll never be good enough...

"It's slimy," Isadora whined, voice higher than a broken reed. The toad, cupped tight between her palms, let out a croak as if to note:...

He was skeptical at first, not trusting the fragile feathers held together by bits of wax and metal. But he strapped them on anyway and...

A couple of days before we left to go skiing at your father’s chalet, you casually told me he thought I was shallow. As your giggle...

“I told her she did the right thing!” Lord Astrea Frost roared, “I told her that it was okay to cry, that it was normal to feel terrible,...

It is during times like these – in your hot, beat-up red 2006 Subaru, whose air-conditioning has been broken for almost three weeks but...

“Hey, Boo,” Scout timidly said, her words almost rendering me to tears. The voice I had expected to be unforgiving and terror-stricken...