Episode 4.01: Surprise Surprise
As Nana’s birthday approaches, Taylor seeks out a replacement gift when he learns that both he and Jason have gotten her copies of her favorite novel, Wuthering Heights. Meanwhile, Alice gets into a fight with her older sister Martha after Martha tells her she isn’t responsible enough to keep a pet.
Read MoreEvery driver—including my cousin Chup-boy here—is in a panic. Two five-gallon, white paint buckets rolling in the left lane on Knollwood exploded out every way like ink blot central.
Read More(hope it is ok I’m typing up here, but I’d exceeded the characters in the relationship to mother box) so to get back to the question, Piper and me meet Mom one Sunday a month at the waterpark in Marina Cove now.
Read MoreWhen our tía wasn’t pat-pat-patting masa to make sopes, or when she wasn’t zapateando, her heels ta-tapping and za-zazzing! on the kitchen floor (a luxury of living on the ground floor, no one to complain other than maybe mole people), or when she wasn’t at church praying for Doña This’s health or for Doña That’s daughter to come to her senses and leave that bueno para nada, desgraciado, cholo of a boyfriend of hers—when she wasn’t doing any of that, our tía was at our house, watching the latest episode of Teresa with us, helping our mom cook pozole or tamales or enchiladas, threading conspiracy theories into our heads.
Read MoreShin started raising a flock of Jian birds in the backyard three months ago after he got laid off. He changes their water and feed every morning before I wake, and by the time I’ve dragged myself out of bed, he’s sitting by the window with a plate of sunflower seeds, splitting them open and discarding the shells in a neat pile on a napkin and popping the seed meat into his mouth while watching the Jian attempt to fly.
Read MoreThat winter, my girlfriend Nora dislocated her shoulder stripping in a pole fitness class. We celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by driving to a hot spring just across the border in Idaho. On the way, we told elk stories.
Read MoreThen Tuesday I found out where the coyotes were coming from. Our neighbor Amina trapped me on Hillhurst and whispered it—the guy on the corner was feeding them cut-up hot dogs.
Read MoreA lady with a touchscreen tablet makes her way up and down the line. “Are you here for an upgrade?” she asks.
Read MoreMina was telling me about zuo yue zi. There were a lot of rules. No washing your hair. No A/C. No going outside, so no more of our daily power walks.
Read MoreAfter weeks of anticipation, Chung’s mother dropped his sister off at Rock Springs campgrounds outside Junction City. His sister, Jordan, would spend six days counseling twelve-year-olds at D.A.R.E. camp.
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