by Angelica Bihary – My Secret Garden What I remember is a small house with a large front and back yard. I remember playing with my brother in the backyard, where an old, light blue, rusting Cadillac sat. We would occasionally open the unlocked doors to pick at the peeling cartoon stickers that, for whatever [...]

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by Clyde L. Borg – The Spanish words, El Mundo, mean the world, and it was the name of the bar that we redundantly referred to as the El Mundo. It was located on the northeast corner of West Street and West 12th Street beneath the shadow of the West Side Highway in Manhattan’s Greenwich [...]

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by Jane Doe At approximately 4:36pm, the lights went out in the New Colossus Supermarket. My shift had started at 4:30, and I had the pleasure of training the new girl, Rochelle, on her first day as a cashier. The power outage came on gradually, first appearing in the form of a broken credit card [...]

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by Kimberly Ruth It was strange. Well, maybe just unexpected. I slowly made my way into the car-jammed parking lot at 2:33 pm the Friday after Thanksgiving, hating myself for choosing to do a story on shopping malls, or America, depending on how you look at it. I was hoping to catch a fight with [...]

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by Jimmy Lam “Jimmy, you think I’m like an American?  Do you think I went out every day to waste away my life fooling around?  I told you, my life was simple.  If someone asked me to explain my life, I could explain it in one sentence: I worked.  There is nothing more to my [...]

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by Andrea Ramprashad “In East Indian families, what children want is not important. East Indian parents use “guilt and shame” to scare children from developing into their own individual. East Indian parents are afraid that their children will pull away from their culture. I feel that all parents should have more faith in their children, [...]

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