Zanna was liv­ing a great life. She was twelve years old, pretty, and had vir­tu­ally no respon­si­bil­i­ties — you don’t have many in 7th grade. She had many friends too, she had plenty of friends, but more impor­tantly a lov­ing mother and father. The bell rang for the end of school. Zanna went straight to the school’s pick-up... Read More »

I I have a headache. My eye­lids are crim­son, behind them I can make out a light source. I am going to open my eyes. Left. Right. My pupils are busily con­strict­ing, my eyes holis­ti­cally are focus­ing. I can just barely make out my hotel room. The tele­vi­sion still blares, the BBC. I must have fallen asleep while watch­ing it... Read More »

Every year, mil­lions of fam­i­lies across the coun­try come together and meet on the last Thurs­day of Novem­ber for no appar­ent rea­son, stuff them­selves with 8400 calo­ries of food in one day, then go back to work a cou­ple days later.  Some peo­ple do get two or three days off, some­times a week, in the name of this occa­sion,... Read More »