This may look like the front of a vending machine. In fact, to make a purchase, all you do is dial a code and a robot sales clerk does the rest. Instead of just sodas or crackers, this machine offers more than five hundred items – like panty hose, shampoos, lotions, pacifiers, tooth paste, batteries […] Read more

In this world, there is real evil. In the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places. Thee are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Between the world we see and the things we fear. There are doors. When they are opened. Nightmares become reality […] Read more

A Haunting title In this world, there is real evil. In the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places. These are the true stories o the innocent and the unimaginable. Between the world we see and the things we fear. There are doors. When they are opened. Nightmares become reality […] Read more

In this world, there is real evil. In the darkest shadows and in the most ordinary places. These are the true stories o the innocent and the unimaginable. Between the world we see and the things we fear. There are doors. When they are opened. Nightmares become reality […] Read more

My mother’s hands are veiny and strong. Her neck has veins. Her back has freckles. She used to do a trick where it looked like she would be pulling off her thumb, when in fact she was not. Do you know this trick? Part of one’s right thumb is made to look like part of […] Read more

I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be. Still, I was there. I was there as much as anyone else was there. Either I sat behnd my aunt and his godmother […] Read more

Maybe feeling my hands on her face would make her understand what I was trying to say to her. But as I moved toward her, I could see in her eyes that nothing I said was going to change anything. I left them at the table and went back home to my room […] Read more

Helena How happy some o’er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he do know. And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding […] Read more

Something happend to Korean humility on the country’s journey from rags to riches–it got lost.Whatever happened to the generations-old Korean tradition of making do with less, the result of the 35 year Japanese occupation and having to rebuild from the ashes of war?  It was replaced by a penchant for extravagance.Seoul’s M youngdong is the shopper […] Read more