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The Color Merchant

The Color Merchant peddled into town moments before the giant clock hanging from the village’s cavern...
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Monism

One day, everyone’s reflections went on strike, and Chloe found out through her college roommate. Janet...
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The Heart Fable

Once upon a time, there was a village where everyone’s hearts were made of metal. Some...
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The Queen of America

For Zaux, the Thasu Intergalactic Space Station was a nightmare come to life. He wasn’t particularly...
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monk : a documentary

see, monk it’s about time for a career change: you and your old tripod on pilgrimage...
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2D Me

Suppose this world is origami and our minds are too complex and ignorant to comprehend this...
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The First Thanksgiving

OPENING TITLES Muf led autumnal music in. INT. THIRD-GRADE CLASSROOM – DAY A haphazardly glued hand...
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It had been five years since the American branch of the family returned to visit, so...
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The Hoax of Prayer

So you say it seems the world has become greener, the hills ablaze with red wildflowers,...
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The Nature of a Racer

In my dream, I mistake the hare for my tortoise because the hare itself forgot that...
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Wolf Tongue

Despite it being late May, Mission: Wolf greeted our school group with a snowstorm. The fourteen...
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“mamihlapinatapai” – (Guiness World Record for most succinct word)

according to the dictionary: “looking at each other across the cafe, two strangers intersect, live asymmetrical...
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The Fate of Balloons

The clown held the strings together in his fist, a bird was folding itself from a...
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Frog

frog in a dried up wishing well spiritless and starved guard your pennies from the Sun...
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Mission Melody

I’m sitting in the very back row of the van, trying to perfect my hand shadow...
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my deer

My English teacher once said Everyone gets one dead deer poem— This is my second. I...
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Float Test

In the dream, red lotus lanterns float by the thousands in my grandmother’s courtyard. In the...
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The Name of Two Million Faces

Scene 1 A sunny afternoon, 1972. The camp is overflowing with people. Every few minutes, a...
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The Reunion

Evening in Sausalito, the Bay Area: The sunset is blocked by a cloudy sky, and the...
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The Ending

for a giant world map poster: I feel the tape on my borders ripped away. My...
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Fragments of God

My grandma used to search for fragments of God on the riverbanks, wading through shallow waters...
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Moonfall

Not even the dancers themselves can comprehend this waltz: They stalk and tip-toe warily uncomfortable. One...
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No title, not yet.

Reader reads T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men Reader throws down the printed poem and paces Reader...
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The Actor

The actor knows he has failed when he leaves the theater and doesn’t know whether to...
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The Slab City

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Sunrise

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Photography club memories

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Quanzhou, Day

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Grand Canyon

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Light Painting

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Victoria Beach

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Colorado

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Quanzhou Night Market

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Great Grandma

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Macrophotography

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Secret Garden – Huntington Beach

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