This is the story of a young girl, uprooted from her familiar, comfortable home in New York City and placed in what was to her an unbearable new world.
On the Other Side of Everything: The Girls Write Now 2023 Anthology
I Once Thought I Knew Myself
This piece offers a discussion on how 2020 was a year that gave me time to reflect on myself.
Kill Them with Laughter, Kill Me with Peanuts
Allergies make you vulnerable. In my case, more mentally than physically, despite the physical severity a peanut poses. The piece below takes the reader inside my mind as I fear for my life.
The Rise of Fame, The Fall of Family
After spending the past year becoming a rising star, Daisy comes home plastered on the front page of The Times. Her parents disapprove of Daisy’s lifestyle, forcing her to choose between them and her fame.
To Be A Princess
I never realized that my dream of becoming a princess as already been fulfilled long before I was born.
Welcome To The Neighborhood
This story is an excerpt that explores the effects gentrification can have on a community and its foundational members. Clem has been living in this neighborhood forever, and it suddenly changes before her eyes.
Oma’s Hands
“Oma” is the German word for grandma. These two short memoirs are the beginning of a larger collection centering around my Oma and how my perception of her has changed over time.
The Smiling Eyes
Like the title of this anthology, I often feel like I am the other side of everything as I navigate my life in the USA as a Korean immigrant.
Pocket of Peace
Being a college junior in NYC wasn’t easy for Iris. The pandemic made it worse. But no matter how stressed she may get, she remembers that loving herself is the solution to all her problems.
Pink
Why is pink a “girly” color? Does pink limit us or empower us? What is the future of pink?
Music of Pain
Love comes in different forms: some are like beautiful dreams, and some are painful truths. Guard your heart before it gets trapped in those painful truths…
Prologue
This is part of my prologue from my novel Faust and The Bleeding Hearts. It follows Faust trying to get back her mortality from death themselves.
The Red Shoes
A poetry piece about dance, war and immortal life.
Motherhood Mural
This is a story woven together with fragments of memories, notes, and bunnies. This is a medley of short-lived relics. This is a song.
Pay The Price
A short story taking a closer look into the mind of Adah Ellen Price, a character in the novel “The Poisonwood Bible.”