Stories

I began the lesson as usual. I was in one of the funny classes were I really enjoyed myself. I walked in and everyone stood up. I asked them one or two questions to get the atmosphere going. “ARE YOU HAPPY?” I asked all of them while they still stood up. “NO!” Most of them […]

Tori Onawa had always prided himself on his combobulation. His combobulation was his primary benchmark to measure his overall well-being. A combobulated day was a successful day for Tori. He had never witnessed a discombobulated day in his whole life. But one day that changed. A discombobulation was bound to happen sooner or later in

Many people will agree that high school is arguably the most intense time to be alive during the process of growing up as a human being. Some remember it dearly. Some dreadfully. The matter of fact is that during high school one of the most important breakthroughs concerning the individual’s existence happens. It is during

I was waiting for the plane to take off. I had just finished spending 2 weeks in Bali. Why Bali? Because I’d already been in Indonesia for nearly 5 months. I was just finishing my exchange semester in that country and my visa would last a few more weeks. So the best thing anyone could

I want to talk a little bit about cheese. This isn’t any story or riddle with some hidden meaning or any epistle dedicated to something or someone in particular, except maybe to cheese a little bit. I simply felt like talking about cheese. There are a few great things in this crazy world we’re living

I’m sitting in this living room. I look around and everything looks soviet. The couch, the carpet, the framed mirror covering the upper half of one of the walls and the TV were all contributing to this decorum. The only thing missing was the portrait of a glorious leader wearing a green uniform with an

A new friend enters the scene Now there was this one dude I used to hang out with in my early days of high school. Even to this day I’m not sure if there was something inherently wrong with him, or he simply just didn’t give a fuck about anything. It just seemed that this

People need jobs. That’s what everyone tells you. Jobs come in different ways, shapes and forms in order to match people’s skills, knowledge, attitudes and mindsets. It’s just the way it is. Like a math function. For every x there’s a y.  Jobs enable people to have money. Money enables people to do stuff. More

It was the year of our lord 2020. Late spring to be more precise. A little something called Covid 19 changed everyone’s life and mostly not for the better. 2 months of government-imposed home isolation had just ended and a lot of us living in the big metropolis of Bucharest were yearning to come back

The compelling force of the cosmic empire struck me once again and hit me flat in my face one particular morning in Phnom Penh city. I woke up way too early and as usual, having nothing better to do, I wanted to unwind in the reception of the hostel by killing ogres and other dratted