Megan Ngo is a Wisconsiner and high-school writer who devotes hours of her day to reading, writing, and other nonsensical activites. Her favorite non-writing related things to do are playing piano and harp, watching rom-coms, and Model UN. She can be found strolling aimlessly in bookstores, sniffing new books, or eating a pastry in a local cafe.
Marissa Meyer, Maya Angelou, Stephanie Garber
I don't write for everyone else's sake, but to provide myself an outlet for my thoughts that take up too much free space in my head. Even so, I hope that everyone finds something to connect to in my writing, whether that be an interesting word, inspiration, or an experience.
This piece was selected as an Honorable Mention in the First Chapters Contest, hosted in partnership with Penguin Random House and Electric Lit. Mave Chen finds herself in an impossible situation where she’s the only one who knows a secret the conquering Rynnians would kill for.
Told in a series of chat conversations, “Offline” tells the story of a writer who, fed up with his technology-assisted world, turns to the one thing he’s tried so hard to avoid: AI.
