A month ago, Mike Kleine tweeted out a link to a game he built called Suicide by Jagjaguwar. At first look, it looks like a game I would have played as a kid on my ColecoVision. As you walk around, you start to realize this isn’t like a traditional game, one where there is a […]
Words From The Other Side
Rest Here
Wind, power, speed; we zoom up the mountain to the place that prints the papers, where you can get The Wall Street Journal early. I love the orange motorcycle the way other girls love ponies. At three, I have my own helmet and know to hold on tight, but I must not be holding tight […]
Knowing You’re the Villain
I had no plans for my second Lunar New Year break in South Korea, content to spend my three-week break from teaching sleeping until five. I never knew if it was five in the morning or five in the afternoon, since the January sky was dark for both. This was in humanity’s pre-smart phone days, […]
Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl Who
I grew up knowing my father was maybe a Gypsy, the kind that travelled around Ireland with beautiful spotted horses and painted caravan wagons. Or maybe my mother, like Janet of Carterhaugh, met Tam Lin in the forest and battled for him with the Queen of Fairies. The government told me she was 32, he […]
Gray People
For Youth Activities Counselors aboard my cruise ship, seeing consecutive blocks of “WASH” on the schedule could be a nightmare. We’d signed onto ship life because we wanted to goof off with kids all day, maybe revise our own childhoods to include copious amounts of adventure and sunshine. Nobody wanted to get stuck monitoring a […]
Holiday of the Flies
Day 1. It all started when someone forgot the cereal. Someone forgot to refill the cereal supplies at our coworking space. There are dozens of us, tech entrepreneurs who share desks in a large open-concept office where we work on our individual companies and projects. I run my writing business out of there, so I […]
