Once upon a time, on the outskirt of a European country, there was a moderately-sized town. Its dwellers had been living on the export of beer for centuries and there was a prestigious family who had taken a monopoly...
What had happened was…”, Troy began, betraying his Georgia country boy roots. Milla cringed. She was so sick of his antics, excuses, and the way he stressed the accent thinking that it made him seem cute to her.
He was...
Last Christmas, one of my friends at school said to me: “It feels like you’ve been here forever, with all the impact you’ve had.” And this line has lived in my head rent free for the rest of the...
Staring back on my time in China, the feeling that all was not as it first appears was a near-constant companion as I adapted to the inevitable cultural obstacles any foreigner feels leaving home.
回顾我在中国的时光，当我适应任何外国人离开家时不可避免的文化障碍时，一切都不像最初看起来那样，这种感觉几乎是恒久的伴侣。
Specifically, though, for me, that feeling ...
Many, many moons ago, when I was a fresh-faced graduate with a chunk of student debt to pay off, I worked for a while in a nursing home. It was a rather grand, if somewhat faded country home that...
Let’s pretend I was 18 when I got my first tattoo. That’s still a considerable whack of years to have been inked.
让我们假装我18岁时第一次纹身。 这仍然是一个相当大的年份。
The word tattoo means literally “a puncture, or mark made on the skin”, first noted in Captain...
I must confess from the get go that I don't have any tattoos. I flirted with the idea of getting song lyrics in my teenage years; I would have gone for somewhere understated, like a tricep or inner thigh....
As Miranda's eyes fixated on the blinking red lights of the Level 5 Vernacular Lock, a surge of adrenaline coursed through her veins. The cold, unyielding metal of a gun pressed against the back of her scalp.
Glancing at the...
