fiction
Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed
Doctor or lawyer—my only two options. These would be your only two options if you have
Asian parents. You would think that you would be able to pick your own career, since you
know, it is your own damn life. But not when you have Asian parents…
Less Than White
Soft and sweet. A foot the size of my hand making an impression of itself on my lap. A red impression. Smile. A smile upon the child’s face, not that I could tell. Sticky fingers across my eyes, so I shut them and smile back.
Wake up.
‘Wake up.’
‘Yes I know.’ I say.
One room centred towards a [...]
Scratching Mahogany
I ran the usual thoughts through my head and hoped that they were from the heart. This time it ended up with me collapsing on my bed and shouting into the sheets, fists gripped tight. Conscious act. Probably.
Just listen to the music. No time. “What?” came the inquisitive. Laced with what I was meant to [...]
Leopard Print Dress
The dress fit Julie like a tattoo.
She sat at the edge of the sofa. Gary’s sofa. Gary’s living room.
Gary.
The only light filtered through the curtains from a streetlight half-a-block away.
She smoothed the front of her dress. She tugged a little at the hem and it rode a bit higher on her leg, almost defying decency.
“Nothing could [...]
An Excerpt from WALK ME TO MIDNIGHT
Billy Carolina was as small and round as an elf, with star lines around his bright blue eyes. He wore gold-rimmed glasses, and his blond hair spilled boyishly over his forehead. He was immaculate and stylish, yet somehow as wholesome as a Hummel figure. No more than sixty-four inches tall, with chubby childlike limbs, he [...]
A Night at the ‘Well of Purity’ by Lloyd Lofthouse
You are invited to take a journey back to the Vietnam War. One night from 1966, stayed with me through the years, and some might find it disturbing. The event this short story depicts did take place. However, this is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, and events as well as all [...]
Warrior Of Light Issue nº 180 - The second cardinal virtue: Hope
By Paulo Coelho
According to the dictionary: a tendency of the spirit to consider something as probable; the second of the theological virtues; expectation; supposition; probability.
In the words of Jesus: Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you [...]
Warrior Of Light Issue nº 179 - The first cardinal virtue: Faith
First we spoke in this space of the seven capital sins. The series enjoyed a wide repercussion among readers, which made me very happy. But what about the seven cardinal virtues?
The sins come before the virtues. As a wise man said, he who has not sinned has no merit in his virtue – because he [...]
“The Struggle, First Generation”
“The Struggle, First Generation”
Chapter One: The Beginning
You find yourself beginning to lie back on your bed, your legs dangling off the side, in your bedroom. You have your arms folded around your head, your hands crossed under the back of your neck, while you are just staring off into space. Your bedroom window is [...]
Bread and Water and Love
Paniagua was so named from an early Spanish settler’s misspelled contraction of pan y agua, meaning literally “bread and water”. Places were onced named for their distinguishing characteristics unlike today, and if one’s eyes were to be laid upon the solitary quality of this westerly land one would see as why a [...]
