topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Royalty” Flying home to Ireland, on Saint Stephen’s day, the 26th of December. The country has been covered with snow, temperatures plunging below zero. It covers the landscape, making all white, all redundant, eerie in disuse, like furniture under […]
topic: NATURE medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Borders” “And when the rainy season comes, I know That with the fall will come two emotions; One’s not to shake from me its devotions, That of winter hearts’ melancholic woe. Delight in other rains of excitement, Storms in […]
“Impossible but it happened: a leaf Came to rest, plump and green and fresh as breath, After conducting the breeze in that brief Musical catastrophe called “leaf-death”. As through a camera falling from a cliff, We saw what it saw and felt what it felt, Delightful panic, a delicious whiff […]
NATURE “Out beyond the liminal edge, Where liquid light will someday seep, Our face is like a perfect sphere Upon the surface of the deep. Upon the surface of the deep Reflected in the blackest lake An object bouldering into space With Armageddon in its wake. With Armageddon in its […]
Farley Katz is from Texas originally but has been living in NYC since 2007. His cartoons appear in The New Yorker magazine. He also writes and draws the web cartoon Kids Are Dumb This is his submission to PenTales Love and Heartbreak. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good […]
PenTales: You’re the Mexico City Instigator. Tell us a 100-word story to help us get to know Mexico City. Pablo: In the suburbs of Mexico City, there is a place called Chalco Solidaridad. It is an urban development built after the 1985 earthquakes that tore down several parts of the […]
Adolfo Doring is a New York-based filmmaker, photographer, and artist. His debut feature film “Metro” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Currently, he is working on a photography book titled Nomenclature and the release of his narrative feature, Thinly Veiled. This is his take on Love and Heartbreak for PenTales. […]
Stephanie Yee contributed an illustration to our open call for stories on Love and Heartbreak. Check out more of her work here. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good illustration? Stephanie: I have no idea. And by that I mean that my favorite drawings are usually the ones that […]
topic: REVOLT medium: interview Daniel Rasmussen is the New York Times best-selling author of American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, which the Financial Times wrote had “a breadth and sweep reminiscent of The Black Jacobins.” Rasmussen has been described as a “crisp, confident writer” (Wall Street […]