500-Word Story | Alexander
He shouts my name when I am halfway down the road out of the university. I stop at my tracks and wait for him to catch up. He then asks if I am already going home to which I answer yes. “Can I come along?” I nod. We usually just talk about Game of Th…
500-Word Story | Masquerade
The draped curtain over her window was already glowing, yet Janine hadn’t slept a wink. She just lay on her bed, staring at the darkness hanging above her head. Her eyes were burning with sleep deprivation and dried tears. And she felt really exhausted. Th…
500-Word Story | Silk Chiffon
She looked so beautiful even with the mascara continually cascading over her porcelain skin. Her eyes were red from the chronic crying and her hands were shaking as she tried wiping the tears away. But I swear she still looked so beautiful. I returned my gaze …
Sort of a Book Review | Almost Like Being In Love by Steve Kluger
Steve Kluger's 2004 novel 'Almost Like Being In Love ' presented and tried to answer the question every hopeless romantic – or simply, hopeless and romantic people – have asked, at least, once in their lifetimes: "What if the great lost love came a…
Sort of a Film Review | Donnie Darko (2001)
Truth be told, before I watched this 2001 cult film, I was familiar with Donnie Darko' iconic scenes. There's the Teacher Drew Barrymore clip who instructed her new student to sit next to the cutest boy. And another was that much more known dialogue between …
500-Word Story | Blackbird
They never really talked about it explicitly but I heard my Mom and Dad talked about him one night. They were whispering amidst the lowered boisterous noise of the obnoxious actor from the television commercial. They didn’t really mention his name but I knew it w…
Sort of a Book Review | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Author's Note: May has began and to make the month even more interesting (and the other months, for this matter), I'm starting a Book of the Month feature. And the first novel for this monthly feature is the young adult book Aristotle and Dante Discover the S…
