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|  | I Dare You
| 02/21/2009, 02:25 AM
| | A skinny, thirteen-year-old Adonis still skates around my block, if only in the meandering memory that belongs to a mousey, twelve-year-old girl—who I long to be again. I wish that I still ran out to meet this demi-deity when he knocked on my door, but he stopped knocking when time faded perpetual summer afternoons into autumn. I wish I had knocked on his door when he stopped knocking on mine.Adonis lived around the curve of our street, in the house with the boat in the driveway. He had freckles splattered across the pale skin of his nose...
Read More | | Tags: General, Life, nostalgia |  |  | A Funny Thing
| 02/06/2008, 05:10 AM
| | Write for ten minutes using this as your opening line: A funny thing happened on my way to... Aim for ten minutes. Look at the clock on the bottom-right corner of your screen, start writing, and stop writing ten minutes later. You can write for longer, but shoot for ten minutes minimum.
A funny thing happened on my way to French class the other morning. I usually run late to this class, because Im always frantically (or not so frantically) working on the homework I neglected to finish the previous night. Its not an issue of time, or an issue o...
Read More | | Tags: General, Though, |  |  | What Are You?
| 06/08/2007, 02:37 AM
| |  | It's almost eleven on my last Thursday in my Freshman dorm and I've just skimmed through my art professor, Kip Fulbeck's book Part Asian, 100% Hapa, and of course this means that I have to write a "mini" manifesto of my own "Hapa" identity, because it's the end of a year where everyone knows me.
At the beginning of every year, I get this question: What are you? Sure, there are a few pe...
Read More | | Tags: General, Though, |  |  | The History of a Shoe
| 05/25/2007, 03:31 AM
| |  | We discovered the lonely, white, patent leather pump in the box at the antique store, though we some how doubted that it was truly an antique as is the problem with inexpensive antique stores. It was something still in style, if only it still had its mate. Its white surface had been marred by a few scratches and smudges, and the bow on the heel hung precariously by a few remaining thr...
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