The pigeons huddle around their scraps and peck away, dispersing smaller crumbs like fireworks on display The smaller birds take their share and fly away On the next street over, trashbags sit next to sidewalk trees and are labeled “BED BUGS DO NOT OPEN” They assume that feral cats can read and would avoid during [...]
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Walk Away
Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Daughter’s Perspective on Selling the Female Child
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Jimmy Lam I spent one day and two nights in the cabin. When I had gathered the courage to muster a voice to ask Shirazi if we were almost there yet, he told me to shut my mouth. I fell silent until I felt the need to use the toilet. He’d press hard against the [...]
Slavery Never Died
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The modern term for slavery is human trafficking. Their dreams of becoming something beyond themselves suddenly narrowed into a sphere of solemn emptiness. The best dreams they ever had were the dreams in which they never existed. Is the life of those who have been sold to sexual exploitation worth living? To those who have been enslaved, it [...]
