Finally, we made it!

Me and the bros have officially ran a successful food truck business in our hometown just 9 months after graduating from high school.

Customers lined up to order the best tacos and sweet aguas frescas. Majority of them were college students. Some of them were people we used to go to high school with. As they were in line complaining about how difficult their general ed cours...

Ever since the pandemic, this city has gotten a bit more dangerous. Rent is far more expensive than it used to. People are getting shot. Karens are being ruder. Trump supporters are still wearing their MAGA hats and driving their trucks with “Trump 2024” flags waving and “Fuck Joe Biden” stickers. The amount of car crashes increases. The people I used to go to K-12 with don’t talk to me no more. I...

I was driving home from college, about a 30 minute commute. As I was driving to a really sketchy neighborhood on the east side of San Jose, I drove as careful as I can. I made a stop in the intersection, waited 3 seconds, and looked left and right to make sure it was safe to make a left turn. It was safe so I made the left turn to the street where my house was, until a Karen high on meth/crack/her...

It was a sunny breezy Friday morning in March, and I was walking to my English class with my adidas backpack, adidas hoodie, black jeans, and white Nikes thinking everything is okay. Until some student enters the classroom and gives my teacher a blue slip from the principal requesting to see me in her office. As the teacher hands me the blue slip, I saw the word “immediately” and left the class as...

It was a Monday morning and my coffee machine broke. So I invited my friends Jonathan and Mark to go get some coffee at a nearby coffee shop right before school.

We arrived at the coffee shop, and ordered the usual which is the iced caramel macchiato with almond milk.

“Unfortunately we are out of almond milk. Is regular milk okay?” asked the cashier.

“Yeah it’s fine.” I said.

And so the baristas ...

It was a cold sunny Friday afternoon. My friends Mark, Jonathan, and I just came home from school making plans for the Valentine’s Dance at our high school, looking good for our dates. We took the Uber to the school dance, and as we arrived we waited at the long line counting up how much cash we got in our pockets. My friends and I got 40 dollars each. I had 2 twenty dollar bills, Jonathan had 8 f...

It was a typical Thursday afternoon in a community college, and I just got out of my biology lab lecture. It was a really exhausting week, and I’m glad to say to start the weekend. I drove my way home listening to music.

As I arrived home at the dinner table, my little brother OP was telling the whole family about a back to school game night at his high school, ironically the school I just gradua...

Ever since covid started, a high schooler name Marc spent quarantine in a small one bathroom and 2 bedroom apartment with his mom, his dad (but he works as a nurse and is unable to come home), two of his aunts on his mom’s side, and 8 cousins, 3 from one aunt and 5 from another. Marc and his cousins all share a room while his aunts shares a room with his mom. For this reason, Marc struggles to pay...

Half past 12pm, eyes awake

Insomnia, messed up sleep,

Overthinking, lockdown,

Quarantine, 2020 elections,

and many other stressors.

One day, I was bored in my biology zoom meeting, and nearly fell asleep throughout the day. I scrolled through TikTok and each video on my for you page I see are people around my age promoting a melatonin diffuser from Cloudy.

Cloudy, a personal diffuser with three...

I’m an 18 year old from California in the South Bay Area. I graduated high school in 2020, and I was bummed that I didn’t get a traditional high school graduation just like every other high school graduate. Well, we all didn’t. But hey at least we graduated. In my town, although some places have recently reopened it’s still a dangerous area. Many of my neighbors don’t obey guidelines and they stil...