More sweetly than you ever have, the bottle of ethanol murmurs my name.
Craven is surrender, yet all the more foolish it is to remain in this hell
So I give in –
Liquid sizzling as it denatures the secrets lodged in my esophagus
The chemical scorching my putrefied abdomen, burning against my spine
Every trace of you now vaporized to a ghost.
My tongue and throat alight in flames and my stomach a graveyard, I return to myself to find close to nothing left
But you are also gone.
When I gain consciousness,You’re slumped on the floor.Blood pouring,Face ashen,Lip curled in a slight smile. I cannot bear […]
Now I must confess, 2024 is the first year that I have ever truly attended TIFF.
Must see films and red carpet highlights.
Bloodied white wings—
I look like a medieval painting
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We are forever tied together, wherever we are in this world.
Photos by Joseph Priolo
He is almost gone, he does not tell anymore
of the Partition
When you and I first met, you sounded the vowels of my name out—I warned you that my limbs may vanish in the last sung ‘a.’
By Sipora WestEdited by Ellena Lu and Alloe Mak I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. Mary […]
On nights when I’m especially tired or feel a cold breeze through my hair, I close my eyes and see those grey walls with my mother’s curtains and lost time through my eyelids.
Disarmed, another year folds upon itself. Trains, planes, and automobiles—your virile body—delivered you as far as the earth reaches.
The past didn’t haunt. It waited. And it stayed, long after everyone else had gone.
He’s special, my son. My little Ethan, I want to take him somewhere special.
I experienced two major blows to my belief systems in my early life.
I think I remember it pretty well?
In 1860, French and English troops stormed the Summer Palace in Beijing during the Second Opium War.