Laps Around Lincoln Park
This is how I stumbled into owning a place I merely thought I would stay in.
Furniture City Throwdown
“Assembly is to be performed by competent adults only,” the booklet warns. Um, bet?
‘Avatar’ Movie
The cabbage merchant was probably the worst offender here.
The Count of Monte Cristo Made Me Love the Semicolon
Alexandre Dumas must have had a phobia of periods because the sentences just would not end!
Ghost-light-house
“The ghost,” she repeats. “Have you seen her yet?”
TikTok Made Me Watch Hadestown: The Musical (Proshot)
If I knew my story had a tragic ending, would I still sing it?
Things I Haven’t Done in a Year
My host mom took one look at my outfit and, with a confused and shocked smile, asked in utmost politeness, “Is that an American style?”
Fists
There is something inside me that is deeply distrustful of people who perform acts of Christianity to the general public.
Nolan’s The Odyssey has Lost the Plot
If Polyphemus is just a glorified, land-dwelling version of the shark from Jaws, he hasn’t failed his responsibilities as a host by eating Odysseus’s men. He’s just hungry.
A Farewell
Before I left, I signed my sisters’ names and mine in the closet. A farewell.
