by Jenn | Apr 22, 2019 | Creative Writing
Priscilla looked up from her textbook as Artemis wrangled her laundry basket through their dorm room door. “That was the longest laundry expedition ever. I was about to send a search party out. You’ve never been out this late!” Artemis hated the...
by Jenn | Mar 11, 2019 | Creative Writing
We had noodles for New Year’s, even though that’s technically a tradition for Chinese New Year. I’m not complaining–Dad makes really good beef noodle soup. “Hey guys,” I said about halfway through dinner. “When we go back to...
by Jenn | Feb 25, 2019 | Asian American Literature, Creative Writing
I picked up Diamond Head by Cecily Wong on a whim at the library a few weeks ago and ended up inhaling the entire thing over yet another quarantine weekend. (I seem to be getting a lot of reading done during cold and flu season! But I would really prefer that my...
by Jenn | Feb 14, 2019 | Asian American Identity, Creative Writing
“Are you excited to finally be going back?” Eugene squeezed Artemis’s hand when she didn’t respond. “Hey, you awake?” “Oh, yeah, I guess. Excited, terrified, same thing.” “Why terrified? Taiwan is great. The food,...
by Jenn | Jan 31, 2019 | Creative Writing
It was finally Friday night, two weeks into the new school year. At nine o’clock, I was already exhausted. I had also realized that day that my period was late. Very late, in fact. I figured that the stress of a new school year had thrown off my cycle. But I...
by Jenn | Dec 3, 2018 | Creative Writing
This year I set out to write a complete story in the span of 30 days. My plan was to write every weekday and not stop to edit until the whole draft was done. Despite the fact that I ramble often for other people, I have never sustained a personal writing project of...
by Jenn | Nov 1, 2018 | Creative Writing
I am going to try something exciting and unprecedented this November: National Novel Writing Month, or Nanowrimo for short. The official goal is to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. But people have expanded it to all kinds of genres and lengths from poetry to book...
