Another winter is flowing through my life here, in this freezing country. Back in Hanoi, winter tends to arrive with the suddenness of the northeast monsoon squalls: one muggy evening, …
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In the summer, our Parisian half-cousin hosted a lunch at his condominium. I didn’t go. Not because I couldn’t, but because he’d added me to the group chat hours …
Emotions shape our lives in profound ways, colouring every experience and connection. From joy to sorrow, anger to serenity, hope to despair, emotions are at once universal and deeply personal. …
“Dinner together?” the older version of me proposes, her red lips open and close, saying it clear and sound. “Our birthday, my treat.” She takes out the lipstick and adds …
“You’ve got to line up there.” The airport attendant pointed at a flock of people waiting to check in. We were the late bunch, the timid rebels who didn’t arrive …
Liam Ma is an emerging actor and multidisciplinary artist from Mississauga, Ontario, and is now based in Toronto. He is a McGill University Engineering Alumnus specializing in Biomechanics and Sustainable …
Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer, whose memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was published in 2018. The book won …
Aubergines—my mother believed eggplant sounded too unsophisticated—bananas, zucchini, and once, even a phallic-shaped sweet potato, which she cautioned me early on never to mistakenly refer to as a yam, which …
When my mother passed away and left her old house in my care, I was lost. My childhood home was to be swept of all possessions so that the place …
When Jon called two miles from the border crossing, Aria nearly threw the carrot slices for her stew into the bin. She stayed her hand just in time and put …
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