It is human nature to keep on hoping against all odds. It was 1732, and Alexander Pope’s particular expression was coined and over time, it’s become a proverbial phrase unto …
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Today I saw a bird It was a tiny bird Alone Flying just high enough that I took notice While all the other birds flew one way You flew the …
Postscripts from a City Burning By Sam Cheuk Palimpsest Press, Windsor, Ontario ISBN 978-1-989287-81-1 Reviewed by Kate Rogers As authoritarianism spreads with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine it would be too …
New Penguin Random House Memoir – excerpt from A LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES IN ASIA by Sylvia Yu Friedman
by Allan Cho
A constant stream of impoverished women and girls have been, and are being, enslaved and abused in the Asia Pacific region. Slavery is not a historical issue – it’s happening …
“Learn About my Favourite Flowers Through the Art of Paper Filigree” by Jayashree Krishnan
by Allan Cho
Whenever I think of nature, especially flora, I am reminded of my childhood days when my parents used to take me and my siblings once a year to Kodaikanal, a …
“Would you call this a dumpling or a potsticker? Or a gyoza?” I ask as I turn my friend Gemma’s plushie dumpling around. It’s cute with blush pink cheeks and …
The words were waiting to be needed. They gush out of me, and I’m left wondering if I believe in a god, or three million of them, after all. For …
SETTING Beijing, China. TIME 2018 CHARACTERS DON (35) Male. A hip-hop-loving Chinese American from Texas, who now teaches at an international school. LC (35) Male. A closeted Chinese Mainlander who …
“Wearing Our Shape and Story: A Filipina-Canadian’s Thoughts on Fashion” by Mikaela Lucido
by Allan Cho
If I cup my hands just right, I can hold every fading memory of being a toddler in the Philippines. I don’t remember which store my mother and I meandered …
You wouldn’t think something I do every month would be such a big deal. But it’s a dreaded chore — every bloody time. Tonight, as the appointed hour draws near, …