A gay man myself, I couldn’t help watching these two twenty-something guys as they walked past hand-in-hand. Continue Reading Men holding hands in public
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For me, the colony of lights that speckle the midnight city is always preferable to the monarchic blaze of the summer sky. Continue Reading The Card Players: ...
My grandfather and his best friend made the trip to the coast to find that the only work to be had was picking fruit for ten cents an hour. ...
One husband, two sons. Alive. Limbs and faculties intact. I got away with it? Continue Reading The Birthday Party
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Freedom comes at high costs, and requires plenty of responsibility…Latvia learned this the hard way. And it is a lesson, and a price, my adopted home country of the United ...
I had taken some thirty years ago – a walk that had stunned and disturbed me at the time, but which I had since almost forgotten… Continue Reading ...
It was thirteen years ago that I set foot on your shores, as a starry-eyed, newly married, first-time expat. Continue Reading Dear Singapore
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I was in a foul mood, which the blandness of the place, coupled with the annoyingly present weather like a child incessantly badgering us, did nothing to assuage. ...
“That car’s just too big for you, love, you can’t handle it.” Continue Reading Rage
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Among the many acts forbidden were talking in the locker room, talking in the halls between classes, and talking in the cafeteria until a nun shook a hand bell, a ...
Your roommate will see you binge-watching Netflix on the couch, spooning your dog. She will tell you that you’re leaving for Atlantic City at nine that night.
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Nasalized vowels. Rolled r’s. They seemed to widen the distance between me and my family. I wanted to go home. Continue Reading Mourning is the Sight of a ...
Both are meant to protect us, but at what cost? Continue Reading Thimble, Thimble, Let’s Be Quick
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As one of the few establishments in Osaka that may possibly have offered a vegetarian option, this restaurant had taken us longer to locate than expected, seeing as Google Maps ...
Yet now I am here, in this room with metal tables. To make the messiness of bodies easier to clean up Continue Reading To Die Under a Great ...
I remember telling him three times…Does it still matter? Does it still count? Continue Reading Why I Didn’t Report
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On the one hand, we were happy to walk freely on a narrow path that not too long beforehand would have been heaving with crowds. On the other, we were ...
When he and I weren’t tangled in his sheets upstairs, his tall, lanky body wrapped around mine, he was reading treatises on physics to me, and poetry, by candlelight in ...
I always come back. Continue Reading Needle-Junkie Debt
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The first time we saw Gion was in the evening, during a light rain. And what a seductive show it put on. The pink sun diminished between buildings seemingly held ...
