Luna was brighter than most people around her at any given moment. She was intelligent, yes, but more than that, she made anyone near her feel lighter, further from sorrow, if at least for small moments.

So it was ironic that the darkest disease had rushed through the airs, burst through her apartment, and entered straight into her body.

Now, what’s sad for Luna is that she was too honest. She...

We all start out

the same.

Pushed through

organs.

Screaming to our

first air.

What happens to

us

after, though

is anybody’s guess.

I try to

hold onto

moments

that made me sense

what words won’t

show.

Ugly, decayed, cruel,

we battle against.

But time has it out

for all

of

us.

Perhaps you will

make your dreams.

Perhaps you will

discover new ones.

More likely, though,

you wil...

When I was a child, she used to chain my hands to the chicken pen only after my sister went off on the yellow bus.

She was a grandmother, but not mine.

“Why do you do this to me? I do not like it,” I told her.

Her back was to me, and I saw her eyes looking up toward an aeroplane flying above us. While staring at the engine in the air, not moving her stance, she pulled her arm backward and li...