Chatter. Lots of it pervades the muggy air of Ann Arbor as swarms of people wander the streets of the Art Fair. At 6AM on a Wednesday morning, I walk past tent stations where vendors are preparing themselves mentally and physically for what is probably one of the most popular events of the summer. MyContinue reading “The things we do for high style”
Category Archives: creative writing
13 steps to write a post
– Daily Prompt song is: 1. realize that it’s been 5 day since you last posted something on your public blog 2. panic and find a time and place to write – before summer lab starts, in a café by yourself, or even better – in the wee hours of the morning when noContinue reading “13 steps to write a post”
Rumspringa
Rumspringa: a period of adolescence during which a youth temporarily leaves the community to experience life in the outside world. He was a little different. If people were different platters at a buffet table, He would be the plain pastry near the edge, With doily underneath, looking frilly and fancy.
The way I feel tonight
Maybe its because I’m listening to emotional music – The harmonic bellows of two amateurs Fresh off the ‘tube With more talent than everyone else – Except maybe Beyoncé – Combined.
Freed from the Birdcage (A Creative Revision)
The following is a creative revision/short story based on the popular novel by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. A field is only a field until I realize that I shall never see it again. Upon this thought, an unnamed sadness strikes me as I look out the window, which overlooks the fields of the Rochester mansion.Continue reading “Freed from the Birdcage (A Creative Revision)”
How to act like an introvert in a public setting
Look around the room with wide eyes, never allowing any other emotion but interest and curiosity to take over your face. Appear as though you’ve always got something to smile about, but only to a certain extent. If you’re smiling with a smirk, you are content as an introvert. If you grin like a madman,Continue reading “How to act like an introvert in a public setting”
The Aging Epidemic
Stick out your tongue; you’ve got a bad case of growing up. The doctor said it wouldn’t be lethal, but it’d be chronic. Your childhood will be no more, but instead will come back in flashes of nostalgia in the midst of your pedantic new lifestyle.
Guest Post: Prison Cell 228
Today the double doors of my school entrance looks like the prison bars of the toughest jail in the world. What is a simple hallway from Monday to Friday has morphed into death row on this particular Saturday. I stop in front of Cell 228, and open the door. I walk in, and am greeted by multiple pairs ofContinue reading “Guest Post: Prison Cell 228”
Movie Review: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
You’ve heard me rave about this book more than once now, having written about it rather extensively on this blog. Well, just this past weekend I watched the 1945 film version that is an adaptation of the book. In comparing the two, I wholeheartedly pick the book over the film, for its depth and varietyContinue reading “Movie Review: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
The Middle of the Night Was Mine
– Patrick Dennis When the sun is out, the lighting is perfect enough so that you can see those math problems, so that you can see where you are going when you’re running, so that you have enough energy to do your chores, or anything else “productive”. But if the point of life is toContinue reading “The Middle of the Night Was Mine”
Cat Zhang 