Grandma is usually quiet. She forgets names, dates, places, but she has moments of lucidity. She says she’s become a bird.
Read Morei am not always small, somebody’s little sister, somebody’s baby girl born with pneumonia. i guess that makes me a miracle & on god’s green earth how can any miracle be small?
Read MoreThey give Darrell Grayson the option of Yellow Mama or lethal injection. There is no real fairness in this decision. In not being strung up in a Michael Donald sort of manner.
Read MoreI was afraid of cockroaches until I looked at one underneath my microscope. Dialing the lens, my sight spun in and out of focus over a rough, brown landscape.
Read MoreGloria Gao was the first girl I ever hurt. I punched her in the face for calling my family a bunch of dirty mainlanders. I was Taiwanese like her too, but just half, on my mother’s side, which meant the other half of my family must be made up of organ sellers, gutter spitters, and
Read MoreThe mama mammoth is always there, knee-deep in tar, sinking. Her partner and child wait on the shore. They’re still waiting.
Read MoreMy colleague and I are drinking beer in a strange town, which confuses him. There are too many consonants, and the gargoyles look odd. The conference we’re attending is inter-disciplinary, and this sets him on edge.
Read MoreMy grandmother moves mannequins out of the way to get to the refrigerator. It’s a small fridge meant to store kimchi, hidden from customers’ eyes because she covers it with a plaid shawl.
Read MoreMichael’s dad died, so we went off to smoke by the BART tracks. Everything meant more when we were stoned, every leaf, every rock, every half-assed piece of graffiti work.
Read MoreHe found sex disgusting, and I found sex terrifying, and in that way we reached an understanding.
Read MoreMarch 27th , 1981
I twist the curly wire connecting the rotary phone’s receiver to base. My first call to India from nine
thousand miles away.
The first time a guy said I look like a man was at the Jamba Juice stand in the mall. He was still a boy, probably my age and sticky from adolescence. You look like a man. He said it as if he had the right to say anything to me.
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