Stories

400 Words content. True personal stories that might or might not also appear in the print magazine.

Rice

Posted to Work on 5 November 2007, with 3 comments so far.

by Lara—Age 37—Sundance, UT Cleveland, 1987. Most commuters shuttling home on Detroit Road to their five-bedroom tract houses miss Golden Buddha, hidden in a strip mall between a barbershop and a hardware store. I come here after school, three days a week. Wash rice! Wash rice! Mrs. Wu’s high-pitched voice; always the first words I [...]

Nursing

Posted to Work on 2 November 2007, with 2 comments so far.

by Kay—Age 69—Sewell, NJ What had possessed me to think I wanted to be a nurse? I was eighteen years old, filling a washbasin and crying at the sink in the eight bed women’s ward. I was dressed in my blue and white stripped uniform, white stockings and oxfords. The starched cap worn by nursing [...]

Lost

Posted to Work on 1 November 2007, with 1 comment so far.

by Jamie—Age 26—Kingston, NY I was just out of high school, fresh off the chopping block and had to find my means of living. I was in the arcade playing some video games to separate this new adult feeling, when I saw a huddle of blue shirt and khaki pants gang. I soon realized they [...]

Rise

Posted to Work on 30 October 2007, with 3 comments so far.

by Caetlin—Age 32—Seattle, WA Anyone would call my meteoric rise from the lowly position of production assistant to digital designer in less than six month’s time an act of dumb luck or the result of some form of blackmail. The truth is I’ve worked exceedingly hard for it. I get up at 4.15 every morning. [...]