Love, Patience and Renewal
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We left the country to start life anew in a foreign land. It was a move that sprung not just from failure but more so from defiance.
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Gemma Nemenzo On Life, Love, Writing, And Everything In Between
Alfafara Women
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The blood that runs through our veins is the blood of women warriors and we are all the richer for it.
Read MoreThe End of Her World
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She waited that night, like any parent would, for a child coming home from war. Not wanting to waste a moment to open the door, she sat on her rocking chair, her senses alert to the ticking of the minutes and the sounds of the night.
Read MoreTake Back the Light
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It is lonelier to be in a relationship that doesn’t work than to be actually alone. Trust me on this.
Read MoreCreative Subversion
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It was a time for meeting kindred spirits in the unlikeliest of places and situations. It was also a time for looking deep inside oneself and finding out what's there, be it bravery or cowardice. Most of all, for the writers and artists who fought the regime, it was a time for creative subversion.
Read MoreAfter 9/11
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I admit that I’m frantically ferreting out these instances of a united America amidst the increasing shrillness of the rhetoric of war that is now dominating the airwaves.
Read MoreSo Many Books, So Little Time
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I have set a goal of reading cover-to-cover 100 books for 2014, not an easy task because I get interrupted a lot by household chores, socials and other pleasurable obligations, such as putting out this online magazine.
Read MoreRomantic Fugue
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She felt the intensity of the restlessness and the need to be free but didn’t yet have the words that could make him understand.
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