Monthly Archives: October 2007

I’ve Got it Covered!

Lately I’ve been working on a cover for an upcoming collection of short stories by Wena Poon, titled (rather imaginatively, I felt) “Lions in Winter.” Briefly, these are stories about the Chinese diaspora, particularly Singaporean Chinese living in the States. What surprised me was the number of variations the editors and I could spin on

Older

“Me at 29 and 89″ by Gonzalo Haro It’s a terrible thing, getting older. Everyone around you seems to get younger and if this is not offence enough, they have the gall to be smarter, wealthier, fitter, better-looking and more popular as well. It’s like high school all over again. Yet with age, the list

Why Do We Always Hurt The Ones We Love?

Stillness by Simona Dumitru How terrible can it be to want someone so badly it hurts? That can’t be love, surely? It’s what all the grand novels and tragic poems and television soaps tell us though. It’s this idea of love, this quiet storm inside of us that stirs itself into a frenzy, a thousand