Xiao Dan “And what did Principal Gagnon say?” “That I must’ve misheard. And that I shouldn’t eavesdrop on the boy’s locker room.” Xiao...

Xiao Dan Xiao Dan had never smelled anything worse than the boy’s locker room. She stopped herself from gagging and sucked in a breath....

Fans, Music and Gender Contamination.

Decoding the Politics of Control Embedded in India’s Liberal Abortion Laws

The Use and Abuse of Fanfictions

And the blonde girl was always so patronizing. She thought that she was so special for being the only one that knew him and Bella were...

This piece experiments with memory and the concept of epigenetic memory, where memory is passed though generation.

"there are plenty of fish in the sea / their lustrous scales shimmer brightly"

Revisiting my experiences with summer, touching on themes of innocence and childhood

“Chengyu” are typically four character Chinese proverbs that have stories tied to them. I grew up learning and memorizing them during Sat...

these lies will keep you alive for a night or maybe two until the seeds disperse along the settled soil that will soon be the grave of yo...

It's possible. 25 years ago, on November 2nd, 1997, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella premiered on TV. In the past, there were many adap...

"Our strides are parallel. The clouds / are as white as hanboks, / and we are shocked / by the insanity of breathing."

“In China, you take care of your family. In America, you take care of your dream.”

A poem about the constant burning of California's (and elsewhere's) Chinatowns. From Antioch (1876) to San Jose (1887) to Santa Ana (1906...

It sounds a little mundane, but I want to try to turn a few moments at the barber into something significant. I cut my hair short, which ...

in this monsoon, the climate is scared in the way of something that’s changing too quickly. where our hands tear its hair out and it spin...

I know I’m not the only one who feels like this, as AP Calculus AB tested everyone’s math performance. Kumon set me up for the class quit...

though perhaps, the gift of life is its fleetingness; perhaps it is our mortality that is most beautiful

"Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, While You Were Sleeping, Matilda..."

the last touch of your fingertips that Sunday Send me into dreams

The 2022 G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, was successfully held on November 15–16, 2022 and marked the end of President Joko Wido of...

Indonesia’s West Java Province was struck by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake during the afternoon of Nov. 21, 2022, with at least 268...

You will have a conversation with your mother, sitting in between hot-white slats of ladled sunlight, about coming-of-age.