A night of heavy rainfall had flooded this city without light, and yet hoards of men, women, elders, and kids came out of their cozy...

A lone cliff - parsed through clouds and overlooked its surrounding neighbors. If that circular belt of rocky monsters formed a crown,...

Precious niece, I write this letter to tell you how much I love you. I write this letter to share with you the idea of warmth and...

What does it mean to be free in a world bound to the limits of your imagination? What does it mean to be free in a world set on an...

We fell into an old, industrial-styled town through an entrance high above the clouds. Did it sound like a fantasy? No, we, for sure,...

My sister lived on the second floor of our glassware store. A few years younger than me, she was more than energetic. Running up and down...

I was driving on a six-lane grey road, and on both sides were thick bushes guarding the outermost edge of two residences. It was queer to...

Sonder. I will never fully know a person. Not even myself. Especially myself. I can only know as much as others allow me to. But perhaps...

We were driving away from my school after my graduation ceremony. Which year was that? I could not remember, but I did know that was the...

The air was warm, humid, heavy. The room seemed to be charged with invisible particles of dust and ashes, making it difficult to breathe,...

Je n’existe pas. J’existerais peut-être seulement en pensée. Et de ma vie, il ne restera qu’une série d’images, de progrès et de...

I had been sleeping in an underwater cave for a long time, so long that I found my tail wholly buried in sand and dirt when I was woken...

I was walking down the main street with a group of friends when I first encountered him, whose name was unknown. Therefore, to avoid...

It was a gloomy night when I died. I am yet to understand how it came to be, how it all began. The story unfolds with difficulty in my...

4:46: Heavy breath from agitated animals, or people. Corporal and his comrades awaited their fate. Patiently they stood in columns and...

Sometimes I wonder what it really means to be human. I wonder what it means to live with people you will never really know and accomplish...

“Down in the bardo, there was nothing to hold so we let it go” You close your eyes in delight as the wind brushes your curly hair. It is...

Corporal had not slept that night. 23:00: He just finished the last of his paperwork – a written application for a place in the new...

It was a humid summer day when I walked out of the neighborhood, seeking a place for lunch. The sun glared, steaming the dust on the...

I disappeared without a single soul realizing I had left. I guess this is what it means to see life and death intertwine until they form...

Tut – Tut – Tut. The cruise liner detached itself from the dock, its silvery-white body shimmering with the tide's hold. Stay, stay,...

What do you see when you close your eyes? I used to see a house by the shore. It was a small house of red bricks standing on the edge of...

Spring came to our school a season ahead of the rest of the town – blooming trees enclosed us, forming a barrier against the prying eyes...

Shopping, eating ramen, and going back home – the girl had an ordinary Saturday. Now, she had passed the neighborhood entrance and gone...

Ten hours. I finished my regular daily routine in the first five hours and spent the preceding five sleepless nights pondering over what...

I, with a bag of garbage in each hand, felt particularly surreal loitering in the elevator lounge, waiting for the "2" to change to a "1"...

The girl and her friends had exhausted every corner of this dimly lit cabin. The five of them scattered across this classroom-sized...

You arrived at this town late at night, long after everything had closed down, and only a few lights penetrated through the fog as...

On an average afternoon, my friends and I squatted on the front sand pool (which would be a lawn in other parts of the country) of my...

Along with a few other students, I was standing in the darkness, peeping out of the windows. The classroom we were in was empty – the...

We were rolling in the air, literally, with clouds beneath us and city even farther down. "Man, how did you pass the driving test?" I was...

I stood by the gate, my navy-blue backpack (the bottom of which was almost touching the ground) dangling in one hand and the phone in the...

You stopped by a secondhand bookstore on your way home. How strange - you had a midnight deadline for the lab report, and yet you stayed,...

A canopy of twilight sheltered the entertainment park, immersing it in a luscious shade of plum. The drowning sun grew moderate, tuning...

You stood in the lounge of an apartment building. People — families and strangers — huddled together in this gloomy space. The overhead...

The boy was running on a grass field, the tip of his unzipped coat flying up and down, resembling a small grey flag under furious winds....

We meandered in the market, overwhelmed by the noise of bargaining, people passing, and plastic bags hanging under the large white tents...