Kaia Boyer
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“listen”
Sometimes you know better, sometimes you confront the part of you that knows better, sometimes you refuse to listen anyway.
Kaia Boyer (any pronouns) is a 17-year-old Chinese-American author born and raised in San Francisco, California, currently attending Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, with words in 826 Valencia, The Daily Drunk Mag and elsewhere. While she’s not reading and writing, she can be found on the softball field, listening to Taylor Swift, or trying (and failing) to manage their parakeets. They’re currently revising their second of three novels.
Taylor Swift, Tamsyn Muir, Reneé Rapp
Culture (broadly defined as the customs of a social group) always seems to be written about from a racial or ethnic standpoint, and I’m one hell of a picky eater, so when the prompt of food and culture came up for Print 360, I was at a loss. I barely eat any of the traditional food made by my Chinese grandparents. So, I decided to go with something everyone in a long-distance relationship can relate to, which is, essentially, culture: eating together (or at separate times) from afar.
Kaia Boyer
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Kaia Boyer
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Sometimes you know better, sometimes you confront the part of you that knows better, sometimes you refuse to listen anyway.
Kaia Boyer
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Kaia Boyer
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This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit. Deja Evans and Vivian Wu are thrown into collaboration at summer camp after six months of no contact. Reluctantly, working together is the only option, even as the memories of their time together invade.